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This response argues that the National Research Council (NRC) report, while valuable and thorough, would have benefited from conceptualizing evaluation activities along a continuum of knowledge development, with evaluations initially verifying the effectiveness of program concepts, before moving to evaluations of the feasibility and generalizability of anti-crime strategies and, finally, to evaluations of the costs and benefits of implementation of new strategies.
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Harrell, A.V. Towards systematic knowledge building: An anti-crime research and development continuum. J Exp Criminol 2, 339–344 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-006-9013-x
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