Doctoral Dissertation Research: Hero or Inmate, Prison or Camp, Rehabilitation or Labor Extraction?: A Multi-Level Study of California's Prison Fire Camps

博士论文研究：英雄还是囚犯，监狱还是集中营，康复还是劳改？：加州监狱消防营的多层次研究

• 批准号: 0851518
• 负责人: Valerie Jenness
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 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: 2009-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851518&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Hero; Inmate

This research aims to better understand California's Conservation Camp Program, in which more than four thousand male and female prisoners are housed in fire camps throughout California. In these camps, which generally have no secure boundary and look more like army barracks than traditional prisons, inmates work either inside the camps or on crews outside the camps on various projects for government agencies under the supervision of forestry or fire department employees. Tasked with responding to emergencies, including wildfires, these prisoners constitute a substantial proportion of those doing the hard, dangerous labor of cutting fire lines to prevent and fight wildland fires. The current project utilizes interviews with inmates, officers, supervisors and administrators, as well as on-site ethnographic observations to explore everyday life in the camps in terms of the nature of rehabilitation and punishment. Another phase of the project examines what happens to camp inmates once they parole and return to the community, especially in terms of employment and recidivism rates. Although each phase of the project has its own methodologies and research sub-questions, the overriding research question is how one particular carceral setting fits into the larger picture of punishment in California and the United States more broadly. This project will therefore serve as a springboard for contributing to knowledge about punishment and social change by drawing from diverse literatures including law and society, sociology of punishment, and criminology. More broadly, the findings may shed light on the relative effectiveness of the fire camps in reducing recidivism and aiding parolees in securing gainful employment.

这项研究旨在更好地了解加州的保护营计划，其中超过4000名男性和女性囚犯被安置在整个加州的消防营。这些营地一般没有安全的边界，看起来更像军营，而不是传统的监狱，囚犯要么在营地内工作，要么在营地外为政府机构的各种项目工作，接受林业或消防部门雇员的监督。这些囚犯的任务是应对包括野火在内的紧急情况，他们在从事切断火线以防止和扑灭野火的艰苦、危险劳动的人中占很大比例。目前的项目利用与囚犯、官员、监督员和管理人员的访谈以及现场人种学观察，从改造和惩罚的性质方面探讨营地的日常生活。该项目的另一个阶段审查了劳改营囚犯一旦假释并返回社区后会发生什么，特别是在就业和累犯率方面。虽然该项目的每个阶段都有自己的方法和研究子问题，但最重要的研究问题是，一个特定的监狱环境如何适应加州和美国更广泛的惩罚大局。因此，该项目将作为一个跳板，通过借鉴包括法律和社会，惩罚社会学和犯罪学在内的各种文献，为有关惩罚和社会变革的知识做出贡献。更广泛地说，研究结果可能揭示了消防营在减少累犯和帮助假释犯获得有报酬的就业方面的相对有效性。