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Crimonologisch onderzoek in kaart: onderzoek uitbesteed door de Algemene Directie Veiligheids- en Preventiebeleid, Federale Politie en Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid (1995-2003)
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ISBN: 9038207867 Year: 2005 Publisher: Gent Academia Press

The paradigm dialog
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ISBN: 0803932359 9780803932357 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Sage

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"In Fourth Generation Evaluation, Guba and Lincoln present a strong, unequivocal argument for the epistemological, methodological, and ethical superiority of their refined constructivist inquiry paradigm for the political and practical demands of program evaluation." --Jennifer Greene, Cornell University "I would warmly recommend it as stimulating and challenging reading." --Systems Practice "I consider Fourth Generation Evaluation to be an exceptionally daring and insightful book. It has done more than most books to further loosen the grip of liberal, instrumental ''common sense'' (i.e., ideology) that has constricted the field of evaluation for the past 30 years. The book's idealism is energizing and must only be matched, as the authors certainly know, by yet more hard-headed analysis. Its radical ambitions are inspiring if not always apparently achievable. However, fair is fair: radical ends demand radical means." --Evaluation Practice Fourth Generation Evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. Guba and Lincoln point to the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators--politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions--and lay the blame for failure and nonutilization at the feet of the unquestioned reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm of research. Fourth Generation Evaluation, a more informed and sophisticated approach, moves beyond science to include the myriad human, political, social, cultural, and contextual elements that are involved. Based upon relativism, a unity between knower and known, and a subjective epistemology, the authors show how fourth generation evaluation unites the evaluator and the stakeholders in an interaction that creates the product of the evaluation. Differing from previously existing generations, this new approach moves evaluation to a new level, whose key dynamic is negotiation. The constructivist paradigm is espoused by the authors and shown to offer multi

Crime and Punishment : Interpreting the Data
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ISBN: 0335153909 0335153895 9780335153893 Year: 1986 Publisher: Milton Keynes: Open university press,


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Measuring crime : large-scale, long-range efforts
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ISBN: 0791401456 9780791401453 Year: 1991 Publisher: Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York press,


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Stoppen of verplaatsen? Een literatuuronderzoek over gelegenheidsbeperkende preventie en verplaatsing van criminaliteit
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ISBN: 9038703295 Year: 1994 Publisher: Arnhem : Gouda Quint,

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