By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, WASH. – A person with schizophrenia shouts incoherently in a city playground; a woman in the throes of a psychotic crisis hurls rocks against a door; a young man with autism in the middle of a busy road pushes the police officer who tries to move him to a […]
By Judith Van Dongen, WSU Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. – Increasing public safety and controlling costs are among the benefits of three related Washington State University projects to predict criminal re-offense and determine the effectiveness of treatment programs.
Bryan Vila, a nationally recognized expert on crime control and human performance issues and a former law enforcement officer, is joining the criminal justice faculty at Washington State University Spokane.Vila most recently directed the Crime Control and Prevention Research Division of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) the research arm of the U.S. Department of […]