Understanding the time-course of an intervention’s mechanisms: a framework for improving experiments and evaluations

The crime prevention evaluation literature has identified several potential side effects of interventions. These often-unintended consequences occur at different stages of prevention processes, including before official start dates. They can improve or reduce intervention impacts. Evaluations using...

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Authors: Linning, Shannon J. (Author) ; Bowers, Kate 1972- (Author) ; Eck, John E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Journal of experimental criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 593-610
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Crime prevention policy
EMMIE framework
Initial backfire
Intervention time-course
program evaluation
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Summary:The crime prevention evaluation literature has identified several potential side effects of interventions. These often-unintended consequences occur at different stages of prevention processes, including before official start dates. They can improve or reduce intervention impacts. Evaluations using before-and-after designs with or without controls can fail to identify these effects. We describe a longitudinal framework to guide the design and evaluation of interventions that can account for these side effects when causal mechanisms are better understood.
ISSN:1572-8315
DOI:10.1007/s11292-019-09367-0