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scholarship on general theories of crime, trajectories of offending, and factors and individualenvironmentinteractions influencing criminal behaviour patterns are discussed.Results from the Pilot Evaluation of the Seattle Police Department’s“IF” ProjectSarah Robinson, Seattle University (sarah@theifproject.com)Marne Koerber, Seattle University (koerberm@seattleu.edu)Elaine Gunnison, Seattle University (gunnisone@seattleu.edu)Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Seattle University (jhelfgott@seattleu.edu)Jennifer Sumner, Seattle University (sumnerje@seattleu.edu)Pete Collins, Seattle University (collinsp@seattle.edu)Stephen K. Rice, Seattle University (ricest@seattleu.edu)This presentation outlines results from the pilot evaluation of the Seattle Police Department’s“IF” Project, a crime reduction and crime prevention program run by the Seattle PoliceDepartment that involves multiple components that bridge law enforcement, corrections, juvenilejustice, schools, and community agencies. The core of the program involves a prison-basedwriting workshop in which inmates are posed the question, “If there was something someonecould have said or done to change the path that led you here, what would it have been?”Additional programmatic components involve a monthly prison-based informational topicpresentation, and workshops in schools, courts, and juvenile justice facilities in which exoffenderswho have participated in the prison-based workshops facilitate similar writingworkshops for juveniles for the purpose of crime prevention. Results from a mixed methodsevaluation of all components of the “IF” Project including evaluation of workshops conductedfrom July 2012 to June 2013 in prisons, juvenile detention facilities, and schools are presented.Implications of findings for future development of the “IF” Project and its effectiveness in crimeprevention and in addressing issues faced by individuals engaged in criminal behaviour patternswill be discussed.6. Approaches to Communication Dilemmas in the WorkplaceChallenging Colleagues about Difficult BehavioursRob Lane, University of Leeds (r.lane@leeds.ac.uk)When something is wrong in a team it is always difficult to address this with colleagues andcontinue to maintain the relationships needed for effective team functioning, especially when itrelates to behaviours which are difficult to define and categorise yet have a clear impact on the20