Topic: The student will post on the discussion board the anticrime/prevention program they have chosen to evaluate. Discuss whether the chosen program has empirical support or not. If there is empirical support, please cite the articles and give a short, 300-word summary of the article. Comment on each other’s problems/ideas. Give feedback to each other about the feasibility of an impact evaluation, use empirical research to support your feedback. Try to generate more than one intervention for the problem your organization is trying to solve, discuss the research that supports your program intervention.
Textbook: Vito, G. F., & Higgins, G. E. (2015). Practical program evaluation for criminal justice. Waltham, MA: Elsevier. ISBN: 9781455777709.
The thread must be at least 500 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread. For each thread, you must support your assertions with at least 2 citations from sources such as your textbook, peer-reviewed journal articles, and the Bible in APA format.