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Evaluating the Sycamore Tree Project®
Last modified 2005-12-06 12:32
In November 2005, Prison Fellowship New Zealand released a new evaluation of the effectiveness of the Sycamore Tree Project® (STP).
49 STP participants completed survey questionnaires before and after
going through the programme in order to measure its impact on their
attitudes about crime. The questionnaires tested attitudes
toward:
The data showed that the STP participants had significant improvement on each of the five attitude markers, indicating a reduction in attitudes known to contribute to reoffending. These findings were similar to those of an evaluation conducted in England and Wales using the same methdology to test the attitudinal changes of 2188 STP participants.
The New Zealand evaluation report is online at http://www.pficjr.org/programs/stp/report/
December 2005
- Offending in general
- Anticipation of re-offending
- Victim empathy
- Evaluation of crime as worthwhile
- Perception of current life problems
The data showed that the STP participants had significant improvement on each of the five attitude markers, indicating a reduction in attitudes known to contribute to reoffending. These findings were similar to those of an evaluation conducted in England and Wales using the same methdology to test the attitudinal changes of 2188 STP participants.
The New Zealand evaluation report is online at http://www.pficjr.org/programs/stp/report/
December 2005