Doctoral Dissertation Research: Race Matters-- Ideologies of Race in Police Personnel Decisions

博士论文研究：种族问题——警察人事决策中的种族意识形态

• 批准号: 0321725
• 负责人: Lauren Edelman
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Race; Matters

This project explores the evolving ideologies of race in police personnel decisions from the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the present. Against the background of the societal forces behind the changing face of metropolitan policing, the project analyzes how police officials, past and present, perceive race to matter in law enforcement. The project involves two phases. The first is historical: the researchers investigate whether and how ideologies of race in policing have changed over time. The second is contemporary: the researchers examine conceptions of the appropriate use of race in police personnel decisions. In both phases, the primary focus is on the official justifications used by police commissioners, police chiefs and higher level officers and officials for taking race into account in making personnel decisions, e.g., recruiting, hiring, promoting and making assignments. These justifications are discernible from EEO lawsuits and consent decrees against urban police departments as well as other archival data, including newspaper interviews and testimony before government bodies. This research is supplemented by interviews and observational data from a case study involving one urban police department in order to explore whether there is a gap between what contemporary law enforcement management is willing to endorse as an appropriate use of race-conscious policies and what street-level officers deem to be an acceptable law enforcement resource. This research has important implications both for the sociology of law with regard to race and criminal justice and for policy considerations regarding the balance between protecting individual rights and achieving societal benefits. This research explores issues of race and policing that have received little scholarly attention and makes significant contributions to several areas of law and social science scholarship, including organizational theory and legal consciousness and ideology.

该项目探讨了从1964年《民权法案》通过至今，警察人事决定中不断演变的种族意识形态。在大都市警务面貌变化背后的社会力量的背景下，该项目分析了过去和现在的警察官员如何看待执法中的种族问题。该项目包括两个阶段。第一个是历史性的：研究人员调查警察中的种族意识形态是否以及如何随着时间的推移而改变。第二个是当代的：研究人员研究了在警察人事决定中适当使用种族的概念。在这两个阶段，主要重点是警察局长、警察局长和更高级别的警官和官员在作出人事决定时考虑种族因素所使用的官方理由，例如，招聘、雇用、晋升和分配任务。从平等就业机会诉讼和针对城市警察部门的同意令以及其他档案数据，包括报纸采访和在政府机构作证，都可以看出这些理由。这项研究是由访谈和观察数据的个案研究，涉及一个城市警察局，以探讨是否有差距，当代执法管理层愿意赞同作为一个适当的使用种族意识的政策，什么样的街道一级官员认为是一个可接受的执法资源。这项研究对种族和刑事司法方面的法律社会学以及保护个人权利和实现社会利益之间平衡的政策考虑都具有重要意义。这项研究探讨了种族和警务问题，很少受到学术界的关注，并作出了重大贡献，法律和社会科学奖学金的几个领域，包括组织理论和法律的意识和意识形态。