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Full Report Executive Summary	July 1995
A Plan for Evaluating Washington State's Violence Prevention Act Steve Aos, Roxanne Lieb
The 1994 Washington Legislature passed E2SHB 2319, a wide-ranging Act whose primary purpose is to reduce the rate of violence-particularly youth violence-and other at-risk behaviors in the state. To accomplish these reductions, the legislature adopted three policy approaches: public health, community health and safety networks, and increased criminal penalties. The legislature directed the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to evaluate the effectiveness of these policies in reducing the rates of violence and the other at-risk behaviors. This report describes the Institute's evaluation plan. Document ID: (95-07-1201)

Keywords: criminal justice, evaluation, evaluation plan, prevention, violence, violence prevention act