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15. 0 <br /> juvenile crime in a Phoenix program (Recreation Fights Crime, 1994), or <br /> decreases in the number of kids on the streets during the programs take place <br /> (Smith, 1991), only short-term positive results are taken into account. Thus, <br /> these programs' long-term impacts on the crime rate are not known. <br /> Develop Diverse Strategies <br /> The knowledge base for formulating crime prevention strategies at the <br /> social and community level is still limited. As Roth (1995) noted, many <br /> important policy questions cannot be answered today because of certain basic <br /> limitations in systems for gathering information on crime and prevention. <br /> Proving that recreation-based programs have a direct positive impact on the <br /> • <br /> crime rate, for instance, remains difficult, or even impossible. Nevertheless, it is <br /> reasonable to assume that some intervention might prevent some crimes. Roth <br /> (1995) pointed out that, not only were evaluations of interventions at the social <br /> and community level scarce, but also that existing program evaluations were <br /> not conclusive enough to warrant a national commitment to any single strategy. <br /> Consequently, Roth (1995) recommended that crime prevention policy <br /> should be diversified through small investments in testing many strategies, <br /> rather than a major commitment to nationwide implementation of one or two <br /> programs. Roth also maintained that <br /> interventions that succeed in one setting sometimes fail in another <br /> because of the unintended consequences of interactions that are poorly <br />