Summary of Approaches to Evaluating Practice

A CCR or individual agency responding to domestic violence crimes can use various methods to evaluate and inform its intervention practices. The Best Practice assessment presented in this guide is an approach at one end of a continuum of complexity. While the three different forms of evaluating practice described in the following section have much in common, they vary significantly in the depth and breadth of their attention and inquiry. Each has different features and different limitations as a tool for evaluating a CCR.