New Findings from the Strategies for Policing Innovation Initiative #3

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The Bureau of Justice Assistance Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) sites continue to produce research findings regarding the effectiveness of a variety of policing strategies, using credible and rigorous research designs. This panel will feature several sites that have recently completed their evaluation research around policing innovation, or have made substantial progress in their crime reduction initiatives. This panel will highlight the SPI process implemented in each site (crime analysis, strategy development, and implementation), as well as the process and outcome evaluation findings.

Sub Unit

• Area VII. The Criminal Justice System / 38. Police Strategies, Interventions, and Evaluations

Individual Presentations

• Capacity for Change: Findings from 2017 Strategies for Policing Innovation Sites - James R. Coldren, CNA; Hildy Saizow, CNA

• Firearm Violence in St. Louis: Outcomes from a Police-Prosecution Partnership - Beth M. Huebner, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Joseph Schafer, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Theodore Lentz, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Measuring the Impact of Organizational Change on Crime and Disorder Outcomes: A Process and Outcome Evaluation - Brenda J. Bond, Suffolk University; Elias Nader, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Discussant

• James R. Coldren, CNA