The Community Crime Prevention Program (CCPP), established by the Victorian Government, aims to enhance communities’ capacity to deliver local solutions to crime. It is part of a broader suite of initiatives to reduce the impact of criminal behaviour on Victorians. The Community Crime Prevention Unit (CCPU) is a business unit within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to administer the CCPP. The mainstay of the CCPP is a competitive grants program available to a wide variety of community organisations and local government authorities. Bodies that comply with the qualifying criteria are able to apply for funding in the allocated funding rounds. DOJ commissioned the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) to conduct an evaluation of the Victorian CCPP. In order to assess the strategic appropriateness and efficacy of the CCPP the AIC, in consultation with the CCPU and the Regional Directors forum that operates across the DOJ, developed a program logic model and evaluation framework. This informed the development of a comprehensive methodology combining qualitative and quantitative research methods. This included: consultation with key stakeholders; online survey of local government and community organisations; review of CCPP-sponsored interventions; and analysis of administrative data and program documentation relating to the operation of the CCPP. The project was undertaken between February and September 2014.
Prepared for the Community Crime Prevention Unit, Victorian Department of Justice by the Australian Institute of Criminology.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Evaluation methodology
- Resource provision
- Capacity-building activities
- Partnership working
- Conclusion
- Ways forward
- References
- Appendix A: Evaluation of the Graffiti Prevention and Removal Strategy
- Appendix B: Stakeholder consultation
- Appendix C: Local government survey
- Appendix D: Community organisation survey