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New editors for Criminology

Effective September 12, 2025, the Board voted that a change of leadership was required due to some ongoing operational issues with the Criminology journal. Christopher Sullivan has been appointed as Interim Editor. We appreciate the contributions of the prior editors. A search for the next editorial team has commenced. Please see the request for proposals for the next editorial team (issue dates 2027 – 2031) below.

Criminology – Call for Editor

One of the fastest growing and most popular innovations in public safety in the United States is the use of alternative non-police responders to 911 calls. Spurred by the killing by police of George Floyd and ensuing protests in 2020, this approach aims to reduce the scope of policing and offer a more suitable response to a range of social problems. There are more than 100 alternative response teams across the country, and a key challenge is ensuring that the most appropriate responder is dispatched to handle each situation.

In a new study, researchers examined how dispatch organizations in San Francisco and Denver have structured decisions about whom to send on calls. They found that the protocols currently in use are poorly suited to handle the uncertainty, subjectivity, and ambiguity that characterize many street crisis calls.

The study, by researchers at Suffolk University and New York University (NYU) School of Law, appears in Criminology & Public Policy, a publication of the American Society of Criminology.

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Study on Two U.S. Cities’ Alternative Non-Police Response to 911 Programs Finds Dispatch Protocols Poorly Suited to Handle Many Street Crisis Calls

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