Associate Professors Sue-Ming Yang and Charlotte Gill, along with doctoral students Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, and L. Cait Kanewske, received the American Society of Criminology's Division of Experimental Criminology award for Outstanding Experimental Field Trial. Their paper, titled "A police‑clinician co‑response team to people with mental illness in a suburban‑rural community: a randomized controlled trial" and published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, discusses the observed impact of co-response teams made up of police and mental health professionals responding to incidents involving individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.
The award is given to a researcher, or team of researchers, whose field trial demonstrates a rigorous experimental methodology implemented in partnership with criminal justice practitioners. The authors will be honored at this year’s ASC conference in San Francisco during the division's annual reception and awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 13.
October 01, 2024