Community safety in practice — the importance of evaluation

Abstract

In her regular column examining key issues facing community safety practitioners, Sarah Morton from Matrix Research and Consultancy considers evaluation.Everyone agrees that evaluation allows services to systematically investigate the effectiveness of interventions, determining their value, allowing for evidence‐informed decision‐making and increasing the accountability of such decisions.

Citation

Morton, S. (2006), "Community safety in practice — the importance of evaluation", Safer Communities, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200600003