Deck 3: Evaluation and Crime Prevention

Question 1

Ekblom and Pease argue that the goals of evaluation include all but which of the following?

A) understanding the implementation of the intervention
B) understanding the impact of the initiative
C) understanding who had the most impact on project
D) all of the above are goals
E) none of the above are goals

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Something that takes place independent of the experiment and causes the change to take place refers to:

A) history
B) instrumentation
C) testing
D) selection
E) none of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The taking of measurements in a study that cause change to occur in place of or beyond the impact of the stimulus refers to the problem of:

A) history
B) instrumentation
C) testing
D) selection
E) none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to the text, the ideal follow-up time for evaluation is six months.

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a True experimental design?

A) increases the likelihood of group equivalency
B) certainty that the experimental group receives the treatment
C) other possible factors are controlled
D) costs can be assessed
E) all of the above are advantages

Question 6

The fact that crime prevention initiatives rarely rely on a single intervention or approach is an advantage in conducting evaluations.

Question 7

The issue of generalizability involves what are called threats to internal validity.

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a reason for an atheoretical evaluation?

A) an evaluation has already been conducted
B) there is no interest in why the program works
C) the administrators already know the program works
D) there is a lack of interest in undertaking an evaluation
E) all of the above are reasons

Question 9

Self-report data is a response to evaluations of crime prevention programs on neighborhoods or other small geographic areas that do not coincide with specific police reporting areas.

Question 10

Cost-benefit analysis is a form of process evaluation that requires that an impact evaluation be completed at the same time.

Question 11

The fact that neighborhoods or other geographic areas are often targeted in prevention raises all but which of the following problems?

A) neighborhoods cannot be isolated
B) interventions are not uniformly applied
C) crime displacement may occur
D) there are competing influences
E) all of the above are problems

Question 12

Process evaluations offer a detailed descriptive account of the program and its implementation.

Question 13

According to the text, the largest problem with a cost-benefit analysis is:

A) setting monetary values on all factors
B) accessing the needed data
C) getting the proper people involved
D) securing funding
E) none of the above

Question 14

Another name for an impact evaluation is:

A) force evaluation
B) benefit evaluation
C) outcome evaluation
D) scientific evaluation
E) none of the above

Question 15

Threats to internal validity are factors that could cause the results other than the measures that were implemented.

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a threat to external validity listed by Tilley?

A) place attributes
B) non-crime options
C) selection
D) intervenor attributes
E) all of the above are threats

Question 17

Impact evaluations consider the implementation of a program or initiative and involve determining the procedures used to implement a specific program.

Question 18

The negative findings in an evaluation may be the result of all but which of the following?

A) poor program implementation
B) misspecification of the appropriate target
C) misspecification of the causal mechanism
D) resistance by the target
E) none of the above

Question 19

The underlying problem for external validity is that, too often, experimental designs fail to consider the __________.

A) context of the program
B) costs of the program
C) implementation of the program
D) dosage of the program
E) none of the above

Question 20

Investigating the impact of a prevention technique or intervention on the level of subsequent crime, fear, or other intended outcome is referred to as:

A) generalizability
B) evaluation
C) external validity
D) reliability
E) none of the above

Question 21

In realistic evaluation, rather than relying exclusively on experimental approaches, evaluation needs to observe the phenomenon in its entirety.

Question 22

Intensity of intervention in relation to target people, places, or crime problems varies from site to site, and the level refers to the external validity problem of intervenor attributes.