Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice: Broadening Research and Participation

SES-0935068Ruth PetersenLauren Krivo俄亥俄州立大学该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助的。这个项目建立在来自不同背景(非裔美国人、亚裔、拉丁裔和白人)、学科(犯罪学或刑事司法、家庭关系、法律、公共政策、政治学、社会工作和社会学)和职业阶段(助理教授、副教授、全职教授和研究生)的一群学者的成功合作的基础上，他们的工作旨在拓宽对犯罪和刑事司法研究的视角和参与，并提高关于种族/族裔、犯罪和刑事司法之间相互联系的研究质量。这些学者(种族民主、犯罪和司法网络)建立了暑期研究所(SRI)和一年一度的暑期讲习班，作为实现这些目标的工具。该集团已经取得了一些重要的成功。SRI已经毕业了22名年轻学者，他们正在出版并获得终身教职。RDCJN还出版了两卷：《犯罪的多种颜色：美国种族、民族和犯罪的不平等》和《种族、犯罪和正义：背景和复杂性》(第623卷，5月出版的《美国政治和社会科学院年鉴》)。该项目的目标是在这些成功的基础上再接再厉。我们寻求：(1)继续推动来自代表性不足群体的年轻学者进行研究和专业发展，以开展创新研究，从而促进学术界的民主包容；(2)开展更多的合作项目，以便更全面地了解种族/族裔、犯罪和刑事司法之间的相互关系。这两个目标密切相关。要提高对犯罪和司法结果的理解，需要通过民主化学术来运用代表不足群体的独特观点和方法。为促进项目目标的实现，私人投资学院将为代表不足的教师举办额外的自我评估，以提高他们在学术上的研究成就和成功。学院的结构将提供一个“安全的”和资源丰富的环境，以支持、培训和指导年轻教员完成论文/期刊发表或拨款审查的提案，并提供在大学生存的信息工具包。从长远来看，这些活动应该有助于培养一大批有色人种学者，他们的工作明显到位，他们的存在和成功鼓励有色人种学生从事研究和教学事业。第二，他们将在夏季举办额外的讲习班，以制定旨在提高犯罪和司法研究质量的合作项目。讲习班的结构将是：为报告和改进正在进行的研究提供环境；利用来自不同学科、种族/民族背景和职业发展阶段的学者的不同观点；支持SRI更广泛的参与活动，特别是通过将代表性不足的教师纳入更大的学者网络。更广泛的影响。这个项目将产生两个更广泛的重要影响。首先，它将通过促进代表不足群体的学者的职业生涯来扩大该领域的参与。讲习班和SRI将带来观点的多样性以及对犯罪学和刑事司法领域的研究和课程的参与。第二，它将借鉴不同学者的专业知识，开展创新的犯罪和司法研究。这项工作的中心前提将考虑到种族/族裔的复杂性，并在社会群体的不同定位中嵌入分析。通过合作、多方法和比较研究，研究人员将产生一系列原创的多学科工作，强调种族对犯罪/刑事司法的不同意义，以及种族主义如何与国家和世界各地对公民身份和民主的理解有关。

SES-0935068Ruth PetersenLauren KrivoOhio State UniversityThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project builds on the successful collaboration of a group of scholars from diverse backgrounds (African American, Asian, Latino, and White), disciplines (Criminology or Criminal Justice, Family Relations, Law, Public Policy, Political Science, Social Work, and Sociology), and stages of career (assistant-, associate-, and full-professors, and graduate students) whose work is oriented to broadening perspectives and participation in research on crime and criminal justice, and improving the quality of research on the interlinkages among race/ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice. These scholars (the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network, RDCJN) established a Summer Research Institute (SRI) and annual summer workshops as vehicles for pursuing these goals. The group has achieved a number of important successes. The SRI has graduated 22 young scholars who are publishing and gaining tenure. The RDCJN has also published two volumes: The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America and "Race, Crime, and Justice: Contexts and Complexities" (Volume 623, May of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science). The goals of this project are to build on these successes. We seek to: (1) continue to advance the research and professional development of young scholars from underrepresented groups for carrying out innovative research, and thereby foster democratic inclusion in academe; and (2) undertake additional collaborative projects that will provide a more complete understanding of the interrelationships among race/ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice. These two goals are closely interrelated. Improving understanding of crime and justice outcomes requires bringing the unique perspectives and methods of underrepresented groups to bear by democratizing academe.Approaches to Achieving Project Goals. To facilitate achieving project objects, the PIs will hold additional SRIs for underrepresented faculty to enhance their research achievements and success in academe. The institutes will be structured to provide a "safe" and resource-rich environment that supports, trains, and mentors young faculty in the completion of a paper/proposal for journal publication or grant review, and offers a tool-kit of information for survival in the university. In the long run, these activities should contribute to a critical mass of scholars-of-color whose work is visibly placed, and whose presence and success encourages students-of-color to pursue research and teaching careers. Second, they will hold summer additional workshops to develop collaborative projects oriented to improving the quality of research on crime and justice. The workshops will be structured to: provide a setting for reporting on and improving on-going research; draw on the diverse perspectives of scholars from different disciplines, race/ethnic backgrounds, and stages of career in developing research; and support the broadening participation activities of the SRI, especially by integrating underrepresented faculty into a larger network of scholars. Broader Impacts. This project will have two important broader impacts. First, it will broaden participation in the field by fostering the careers of scholars from underrepresented groups. The workshops and SRIs will bring diversity in perspectives and participation to research and curricula within criminology and criminal justice. Second, it will draw on the expertise of diverse scholars to carry out innovative crime and justice research. The central premise of this work will take into account the complexity of race/ethnicity and embed analyses in the differential positioning of groups in society. Through collaborative, multi-method, and comparative studies, the researchers will produce a body of original multidisciplinary work that emphasizes the variable significance of race for crime/criminal justice, and how racialization relates to the understanding of citizenship and democracy, nationally and around the world.