They look good but don't work: a case study of global performance indicators in crime prevention

Reducing alcohol-related harm and social disorder in a university community: a framework for evaluation

“…The measures most often used to evaluate these programmes were residents' perceptions of safety and fear of crime, as well as police data. Van den Eynde and colleagues34 used global performance measures to evaluate a 3-year community crime prevention programme, but found that they were not able to attribute changes specifically to the crime-prevention programmes using such measures. A systematic review of Neighbourhood Watch programmes that used police crime data found conflicting evidence as to their effectiveness in reducing social disorder and crime 29…”