What’s AEC?
Meet our Current President:
Sarah Bennett is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include evidence-based policing and practice, procedural justice and legitimacy, experimental criminology, and organisational practice. These interests are interwoven within three research aims to 1) advance the role of police and police training in improving outcomes for survivors, offenders and communities, 2) innovate and apply rigorous research methods in real world settings to inform policy and practice and 3) advance organisational facilitators and theories for effective practice. Sarah has significant and internationally unique expertise in delivering complex experimental research projects with translational benefits to improve policing practice in the UK and Australia.
The Academy of Experimental Criminology (AEC) recognizes scholars who have successfully led randomized controlled, field experiments in criminology by election as Fellows. Fellows are selected annually and are installed at the annual meeting held in conjunction with the meeting of the American Society of Criminology.
- James Alexander, Functional Family Therapy
- Steve Aos, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
- Barak Ariel, University of Cambridge
- Todd Armstrong, Sam Houston State University
- Leena Augimeri, Child Development Institute, Toronto Canada
- Geoffrey Barnes, University of Pennsylvania
- Steven Belenko, Temple University
- Sarah Bennett, University of Queensland
- Richard Berk, University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Boruch, University of Pennsylvania
- Anthony Braga, Harvard University and Rutgers University
- Richard F. Catalano, University of Washington
- Patricia Chamberlain, Oregon Social Learning Center
- Philip Cook, Duke University
- Robert Davis, Police Executive Research Foundation
- Kenneth A. Dodge, Duke University
- Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University
- Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge
- Delbert S. Elliott, University of Colorado
- Lynette Feder, Portland State University
- David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge
- Charlotte Gill, George Mason University
- John Goldkamp, in memoriam
- Deborah Gorman-Smith, University of Chicago
- Denise C. Gottfredson, University of Maryland at College Park
- Gary Gottfredson, University of Maryland at College Park
- Donald Green, Columbia University
- Mark Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University
- Peter Greenwood, Association for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice
- Elizabeth Groff, Temple University
- Adele V. Harrell, Consultant
- J. David Hawkins, University of Washington
- Scott W. Henggeler, Medical University of South Carolina
- Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University
- Shep Kellam, American Institute for Research
- Martin Killias, University of Lausanne
- Christopher Koper, George Mason University
- Pamela K. Lattimore, RTI International
- Friedrich Lösel, University of Cambridge
- Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
- Cynthia Lum, George Mason University
- John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
- Doris Mackenzie, Pennsylvania State University
- Harriet MacMillan, McMaster University
- Christopher Maxwell, Michigan State University
- Lorraine Mazerolle, University of Queensland
- Cynthia McDougall, University of York
- Edmund F. McGarrell, Michigan State University
- David Olds, University of Colorado Denver
- Emily G. Owens, University of California-Irvine
- Ted Palmer, California Youth Authority (retired)
- Debra Pepler, York University
- Joan Petersilia, Stanford Law School
- Michael Prendergast, University of California, Los Angeles
- Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania
- Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University
- John B. Reid, Oregon Social Learning Center
- Alison Ritter, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
- John Roman, NORC
- Dennis Rosenbaum, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Peter H. Rossi in memoriam
- Matthew Sanders, University of Queensland
- Lawrence J. Schweinhart, High/Scope Education Research Foundation
- Jonathan P. Shepherd, Cardiff University
- Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Cambridge
- Rylan Simpson, Simon Fraser University
- Heather Strang, University of Cambridge
- Faye S. Taxman, George Mason University
- Bruce Taylor, NORC at the University of Chicago
- Patrick H. Tolan, University of Virginia
- Richard E. Tremblay, University of Montreal
- Susan Turner, University of California, Irvine
- Pat Van Voorhis, University of Cincinnati
- Frank Vitaro, University of Montreal
- David Weisburd, Hebrew University and George Mason University
- Michael D. White, Arizona State University
- Simon Williams, University of Cambridge
Since 2003, the AEC has also recognized persons whose work has made substantial contributions to the advancement of experimental criminology, without actually conducting randomized field experiments. These people are elected as Honorary Fellows:
- Jim Bueermann, Police Foundation
- Jon Baron, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy
- Sir Iain Chalmers, Oxford, England
- Peter Grabosky, Australian National University
- Ross Homel, Griffith University
- Jerry Lee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Anthony Petrosino, Learning Innovations at WestEd
- Laurie Robinson, George Mason University, formerly Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
- Howard Rolston, Abt Associates
- Nick Ross, University College London
- Phyllis Schultze, Rutgers University-Newark
- James “Chips” Stewart, CNA
- Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University
Each year, AEC Fellows serve on two Awards Committees – the Joan McCord Award and the Outstanding Early Career Experimental Criminologist Award – as well as on the Nominations Committee for new AEC Fellows and Honorary Fellows.
Meet our Presidents:
Sarah Bennett is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include evidence-based policing and practice, procedural justice and legitimacy, experimental criminology, and organisational practice. These interests are interwoven within three research aims to 1) advance the role of police and police training in improving outcomes for survivors, offenders and communities, 2) innovate and apply rigorous research methods in real world settings to inform policy and practice and 3) advance organisational facilitators and theories for effective practice. Sarah has significant and internationally unique expertise in delivering complex experimental research projects with translational benefits to improve policing practice in the UK and Australia.