For this week's special two-part session, we have the privilege of hearing from Jungmyung Kim on one of his dissertation chapters as well as the proposal for a follow-up project based on the paper. Please request the paper and proposal from Jungmyung in advance of the session: jungmyung.kim@wisc.edu

Below are the title and the abstract for the paper:

Police Roles in the Treatment of Mental Illness at the Emergency Room: A Case of Criminalization without Criminal Sanctions

In this study, we describe the police’s roles and responsibilities in the process of mental illness treatment in the emergency department. Based on interviews about 51 treatment cases and 32 in-depth interviews with staff of a midwestern hospital, we find that police assist emergency medicine professionals in the (often involuntary) treatment of adults with potential mental illness and assess whether an individual is being a harm to themselves or others due to mental illness. Absent were criminal sanctions enforced by police officers due to the patient’s actions at the emergency department, although we also find evidence that police involvement leads some patients to perceive that they are criminalized. Taken together, these findings suggest the situational invocation of police roles in and relationships with medicine, including a variety of non-criminalizing tasks that may lead to the patient’s sense of criminalization. Based on this finding, we assess each of the identified police task to explore alternatives to police involvement with the processes of mental health treatment.

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We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

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Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

This week we have the amazing opportunity to learn from Rachel Rosenfeld on her dissertation work! 

Below is a description of her work:

My dissertation broadly addresses spatial inequality of environmental injustice, with specific attention to race. In one of my empirical chapters, I have created a novel, spatially-relevant, harmonized climate, environment, health, and socioeconomic justice score for all contiguous U.S. census tracts from 2014-2022. I use this index to better understand where the intensity of injustice concentrates spatially and how racial injustice intersects with environmental, climate, health, and socioeconomic injustices that have created systemic patterns of inequality. The motivation for this index is the fact that most of the environmental and social vulnerability indices that federal and state agencies use incorporate race in an additive manner or take a colorblind approach to understanding spatial inequality with the indices.

Rachel will present over Zoom, and this meeting will be hybrid for anyone who would like to attend in-person. 

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We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93936842532?pwd=ufchxNrBChc8khhZfc0wEIAXPhHl0n.1

Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93936842532?pwd=ufchxNrBChc8khhZfc0wEIAXPhHl0n.1

Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93936842532?pwd=ufchxNrBChc8khhZfc0wEIAXPhHl0n.1

Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93936842532?pwd=ufchxNrBChc8khhZfc0wEIAXPhHl0n.1

Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We meet in-person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact catalina.valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93936842532?pwd=ufchxNrBChc8khhZfc0wEIAXPhHl0n.1

Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/