REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Race, Ethnicity, and the Demography of Crime and Punishment

REU 网站：种族、民族以及犯罪与惩罚的人口统计学的本科生研究

• 批准号: 1262384
• 负责人: David Kirk
• 金额: $ 18.6万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Research; Race

After more than 20 successful years of hosting an REU Site, this project continues for three more years for the Population Research Center at the University of Texas. The UT program retains the size of eight students per year, which is ideal for teaching and research purposes. Minority Group Demography has been the organizing principle for this REU research program since 1989. The program continues this general theme over the next three years, but this time focusing particularly on the role of social context in producing racial and ethnic differences in criminal offending and criminal sanctioning. This thematic focus reflects the expertise of the two new principal investigators of the UT site, David Kirk and Keith Robinson (both faculty members in the Department of Sociology). The intellectual merit of the REU Site at UT is the academic and ethical development of junior social science scholars around a topic of immense importance to the United States. The goals are to provide REU students at UT with exposure, experience, and expertise. Precise program objectives have been developed to accomplish these goals. Exposure to social demography and sociology is accomplished via formal coursework and seminars. An undergraduate sociology course, The Demography of Crime and Punishment, comprises the first half of the summer. In addition, a series of professionalization workshops, or seminars are conducted during the summer. In these seminars, REU students discuss issues such as getting into graduate school and the myriad ethical concerns that social scientists confront during research. REU students in this program gain concrete experience in three ways. First, through formal coursework, they learn about substantive issues concerning racial and ethnic differences in crime and punishment. Second, they are introduced to statistical analysis of social science data in a Stata programming lab and a GIS spatial data analysis workshop. Third, they experience intense mentoring from Population Research Center (PRC) graduate students and faculty affiliates as they work to produce a stand-alone deliverable scholarly paper by the end of the summer program. Finally, the REU students demonstrate their expertise in two ways. They present their research to a gathering of PRC faculty affiliates, graduate students, and other invited scholars, and with travel support from the Population Research Center they present their REU research papers at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). The broader impact of this program is to influence the future of higher education in the social sciences, with special attention to the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of the future academic workforce. The successes of this long-running REU program are already evident, including students who have recently earned their Ph.D.s and have been placed at leading research universities, a number of students who are in leading graduate programs around the country, and others who have recently completed this REU program and will be moving on to graduate school.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

经过20多年的成功主办一个REU网站，这个项目继续为三年以上的人口研究中心在得克萨斯大学。UT计划每年保留8名学生的规模，这是教学和研究目的的理想选择。 少数民族人口统计学自1989年以来一直是REU研究计划的组织原则。该计划在未来三年继续这一总的主题，但这一次特别侧重于社会背景在刑事犯罪和刑事制裁中产生种族和民族差异的作用。这一主题的重点反映了UT网站，大卫柯克和基思罗宾逊（都在社会学系的教师）的两个新的主要研究人员的专业知识。在UT的REU网站的智力价值是初级社会科学学者的学术和道德发展围绕一个非常重要的主题，以美国。目标是为UT的REU学生提供曝光，经验和专业知识。已经制定了精确的计划目标来实现这些目标。接触社会人口学和社会学是通过正式的课程和研讨会完成。本科社会学课程《罪与罚的人口统计学》包括夏季的上半部分。此外，还在夏季举办了一系列专业化讲习班或研讨会。在这些研讨会上，REU学生讨论的问题，如进入研究生院和社会科学家在研究过程中面临的无数道德问题。REU学生在这个程序中获得三种方式的具体经验。首先，通过正式的课程，他们了解有关犯罪和惩罚的种族和民族差异的实质性问题。其次，他们介绍了统计分析的社会科学数据在一个Stata编程实验室和GIS空间数据分析研讨会。第三，他们从人口研究中心（PRC）的研究生和教职员工的经验密集的指导，因为他们的工作，以产生一个独立的可交付的学术论文的夏季计划结束。最后，REU学生以两种方式展示他们的专业知识。他们提出了他们的研究，以中国教师的附属机构，研究生和其他受邀学者的聚会，并从人口研究中心的旅行支持，他们提出了他们的REU研究论文在犯罪学（ASC）的美国社会的年会。该计划的更广泛的影响是影响社会科学高等教育的未来，特别关注未来学术队伍的种族/民族和性别多样性。这个长期运行的REU计划的成功已经很明显，包括最近获得博士学位并被安置在领先的研究型大学的学生，一些在全国领先的研究生课程的学生，以及其他最近完成了REU课程并将进入研究生院的人。-------------------------------------------------