Doctoral Dissertation Research: Legal Consciousness Among Youth at the Red Hook Community Justice Center

博士论文研究：红钩社区司法中心青少年的法律意识

• 批准号: 0961077
• 负责人: David Nugent
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0961077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Legal; Consciousness

Doctoral student Avi Brisman (Emory University), supervised by Dr. David Nugent, will undertake research on legal consciousness, which is how people understand, imagine, and use the law, as well as their attitudes and feelings towards the law. Past research has typically focused on adults, neglecting a consideration of what young people know about the law or the criminal justice system (specifically, law enforcement and courts) and how they know what they know. This project provides an in-depth exploration of the development of legal consciousness among youth associated with a multi-jurisdictional community court (the Red Hook Community Justice Center or RHCJC) in Brooklyn, New York. The RHCJC also functions as a community center, offering a wide range of programs for youth who come to the RHCJC voluntarily to participate in community organizing, development, empowerment, leadership, and artistic programs. The focus of the research is to explore how youth perceive law enforcement and courts, and how they conceive of justice and fairness. More specifically, the central research questions are: 1) How is legal consciousness shaped by the different kinds of experiences that youth have with the law and the criminal justice system via the youth programs at the RHCJC? 2) How do those unique experiences mold or define the substantive nature of their legal consciousness? and 3) Aside from the development of or impact on legal consciousness, what other effects do the youth programs at the RHCJC have on the lives of the youth? The researcher is gathering data through on-going ethnographic fieldwork at Redhook, including participant observation and informal and semi-structured interviews. Interviews with participants are being done at different stages of their participation, to capture the possibility that the youth's legal consciousness changes over time through sustained interactions with other actors in the program. This project is important because it will shed light on the role that youth imagine for law and legal institutions in their community, as well as their own place in working with institutions and agents of formal social control. This project will also improve our understanding of how to invest in the resources (financial and human) to develop youth, community, society and their productive futures.

由David Nugent博士监督的博士生Avi Brisman（Emory University）将对法律意识进行研究，这是人们理解，想象和使用法律以及对法律的态度和感受的方式。 过去的研究通常集中在成年人上，忽略了年轻人对法律或刑事司法系统的了解（特别是执法部门和法院）以及他们如何知道自己知道的知识。 该项目提供了对与纽约布鲁克林的多妇女社区法院（Red Hook社区正义中心或RHCJC）相关的年轻人的法律意识发展的深入探索。 RHCJC还充当社区中心，为参加RHCJC的年轻人提供了广泛的计划，他们自愿参加社区组织，发展，授权，领导力，领导力和艺术计划。 这项研究的重点是探索青年如何看待执法和法院，以及他们如何构想正义与公平。 更具体地说，中央研究问题是：1）如何通过RHCJC的青年计划对青年对法律和刑事司法系统的各种经历形成法律意识？ 2）这些独特的体验如何塑造或定义其法律意识的实质性？ 3）除了对法律意识的发展或影响外，RHCJC的青年计划还对青年的生活还有什么其他影响？ 研究人员正在通过Redhook的持续民族志实地调查收集数据，包括参与者的观察以及非正式和半结构化访谈。在参与的不同阶段进行了对参与者的访谈，以捕捉青年法律意识随着时间的流逝而通过与计划中的其他演员进行持续互动而变化的可能性。该项目很重要，因为它将阐明青年在社区中想象的法律和法律机构的作用，以及他们与正式社会控制机构和代理人合作的位置。 该项目还将提高我们对如何投资资源（金融和人类）来发展青年，社区，社会及其生产期货的理解。