LEEW, Frans L.
Reducing the knowledge-practice Gap : a new method applied to crime prevention
- Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishers, September 2007
This article reports on a synthetic methodology used to reduce the gap between evaluations and policy-making. The authors report on a review of the effectiveness of international violence prevention programmes and discuss how these findings were disseminated to policy-makers. The findings were immediately adopted by the Dutch government and this article explains how and why