Evaluation of the Seattle Community Crime Prevention Program (From First National Conference on Criminal Justice Evaluation - Selected Papers, P 239-246, 1981, Joel H Garner and Victoria Jaycox, ed. - See NCJ-82918)

• NCJ Number: 82923
• Author(s): K E Mathews
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 8 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Available on microfiche as NCJ-82918

Annotation

Findings are presented from an evaluation of Seattle's Community Crime Prevention Program (CCPP), which involved block watch organizations, home security inspections, and property marking.

Abstract

The evaluation was performed to assess the following crime impact objectives: (1) to produce a statistically significant decrease in the number of residential burglaries in the project areas as compared with those areas before project operation and with other nontreated areas during similar time periods and (2) to produce a statistically significant increase in the number of burglary-in-progress calls received by the police department from citizens living in the target areas as compared with nontreated areas of the city. The objective of reducing residential burglary was evaluated using victimization survey data and official police statistics on reported burglaries, and the objective of increasing the number of burglary-in-progress calls was evaluated using police computerized dispatch records. All three sources of victimization data collected at different times for different areas and in different manners showed a statistically significant decrease in residential burglary in the target areas and that burglary displacement did not occur to a significant extent. Official data did not show the same consistent decrease in burglaries, probably due to increased reporting rates for treatment areas. The second objective of increasing burglary-in-progress calls was also achieved. Tabular data are provided.