Prisoner Grievances in California: Disputing Behind Bars

加州囚犯的不满：狱中争论

• 批准号: 0849731
• 负责人: Kitty Calavita
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849731&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Prisoner; Grievances; California; Disputing; Behind

This project examines the inmate grievance system in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) whose thirty-three adult prisons house the largest prison population in the United States. Treating inmate grievances as disputes, this research examines the dynamics of conflict resolution in the extreme hierarchical setting of prison. The focus is on the meaning of the grievance process from the point of view of inmates and prison officials, how these meanings get inscribed in the written grievance narratives, their links to different institutional locations, and their interactive quality. The research hypotheses incorporate expectations that most inmate grievances fail as legal maneuvers, and that the process is heavily asymmetrical; that prisoners have various incentives for filing a grievance; that inmates' narratives shift and evolve over time in interaction with officials' responses, while official narratives tend to be more stable and reflect institutional strategies for the containment of disruption; and, that while the internal grievance system may represent a narrow and individualizing method of prisoner contestation, nonetheless it may be empowering at a subjective level. The data are from CDCR annual reports; the CDCR's Offender Based Information System; a random sample of 456 inmate grievance forms; and, semi-structured interviews with prison officials and inmates in three California men's prisons. The research will add to the theoretical literature on legal consciousness, disputing, and conflict resolution. It will shed light on issues of profound constitutional and human consequences, with the larger hope of revealing areas for improvement in the principal process whereby inmates contest conditions of confinement.

该项目研究了加州惩教和改造部（CDCR）的囚犯申诉系统，该部门的33所成人监狱是美国监狱人口最多的监狱。本研究将囚犯的不满视为争端，探讨了在极端等级制度的监狱环境中解决冲突的动态。重点是从囚犯和监狱官员的角度来看，申诉过程的意义，这些意义是如何在书面申诉的叙述，他们的链接到不同的机构位置，以及他们的互动质量。研究假设包含了以下预期：大多数囚犯的申诉作为法律的手段而失败，而且这一过程严重不对称;囚犯提出申诉有各种动机;囚犯的叙述随着时间的推移与官员的反应相互作用而发生变化和演变，而官方的叙述往往更稳定，反映了遏制破坏的体制战略;虽然内部申诉制度可能是一种狭隘和个性化的囚犯申诉方法，但它可能在主观层面上赋予权力。这些数据来自CDCR年度报告; CDCR的罪犯信息系统; 456份囚犯申诉表格的随机样本;以及对三所加州男子监狱的监狱官员和囚犯的半结构化访谈。本研究将为法律的意识、纠纷解决和冲突解决等方面的理论文献提供补充。它将阐明对宪法和人类产生深远影响的问题，更大的希望是揭示囚犯对监禁条件提出异议的主要程序中需要改进的领域。