Doctoral Dissertation Research: After Prison, Who Will You Become? Women's Citizen-Making at Prisoner Reentry Organizations

博士论文研究：出狱后，你会成为谁？

• 批准号: 1227846
• 负责人: Myra Ferree
• 金额: $ 1.32万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227846&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; After; Prison

Nearly 100,000 of the 730,000 people who exit state and federal prisons each year in the US are women. This population has grown quickly since the 1970s. Women are targets for intervention by organizations that work to reform, educate, save spiritually, or otherwise prepare ex-prisoners for community life as citizens with rights and duties. This process is known as prisoner reentry: voluntary or mandatory programming to make prisoners worthy of their belonging as citizens. Increasingly, this work falls on community-based organizations (religious and secular, for-profit and not-for-profit). With the increased outsourcing of this work, organizations with different visions for women ex-prisoners as citizens are engaged, sometimes targeting women particularly, but sometimes merely including women in predominantly male reentry programs. This research examines what such community organizations actually do, in their delivery of messages about belonging and rights in gendered ways, and in the treatment of women as inviting targets for morally-motivated interventions. The PIs use re-incorporation as citizens as a framework for examining programs addressing work, parenting, and romantic relationships. Three types of organizations are compared: secular organizations guided by therapeutic practices; religiously inspired organizations guided by faith principles, expecting workforce participation or education in participants; and reciprocally religious organizations expecting an expression of faith from participants. The study employs multiple data sources, including administrative and organizational records, interviews with organizational staff and officials, and personal observations of programming in two southern Wisconsin counties. The project will illuminate variation in how organizations understand women ex-prisoners as citizens along the dimensions of work, parenting, and romantic relationships. The research team includes undergraduate researchers who are being trained in data coding and basic textual analysis. Ultimately, the project will inform the criminal justice system with regard to the utility of community-based organizations that provide services to women ex-prisoners attempting to reenter society.

每年在美国退出州和联邦监狱的730,000人中，有近100,000人是妇女。自1970年代以来，这个人口迅速增长。妇女是努力改革，教育，拯救或以其他方式为前囚犯做好社区生活的组织的努力的组织的目标。这个过程被称为囚犯重新进入：自愿或强制性编程，以使囚犯值得他们作为公民的归属。这项工作越来越多地属于社区组织（宗教和世俗，营利性和非营利性）。随着这项工作的外包外包，对女性前囚犯的愿景不同，有时是针对女性的，尤其是针对女性，但有时仅仅是针对女性，主要是在男性重新进入计划中。 这项研究研究了这些社区组织在以性别方式传达有关归属和权利的信息以及将妇女作为邀请以道德动机的干预措施的邀请目标时。 PI使用将重新纳入公民作为研究工作，育儿和浪漫关系的计划的框架。 比较了三种类型的组织：以治疗实践为指导的世俗组织；以信仰原则为指导的宗教启发的组织，期望参与者的劳动力参与或教育；以及相互的宗教组织期望参与者表达信仰。 该研究采用了多种数据来源，包括行政和组织记录，对组织人员和官员的访谈，以及在威斯康星州两个县的个人观察。该项目将阐明组织如何将前囚犯理解为工作，育儿和浪漫关系的公民的差异。研究团队包括接受数据编码和基本文本分析的培训的本科研究人员。最终，该项目将向刑事司法系统提供有关社区组织的效用，这些组织为试图重新进入社会的前囚犯提供服务。