Collaborative Research: Innovating and Experiencing Punishment

合作研究：创新和体验惩罚

• 批准号: 1455091
• 负责人: Jennifer Macy
• 金额: $ 6.16万
• 依托单位: California State University-Dominguez Hills Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1455091&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Innovating; Experiencing; Punishment

This research examines the causes and effects of changing punishment and incarceration practices, with a particular focus on the deepening divide between harsh, high-security prisons and more humane, low-security prisons. The research explores 1) when and how more punitive decisions in penal incarceration get made over less punitive ones, 2) how prisoners and staff experience the implementation of these decisions within different facilities, 3) whether and how penal consciousness differs across prison security levels, and 4) how punishment innovation develops through bottom-up, local-level decision-making. By developing a greater understanding of the factors that contribute to punishment innovation in models of incarceration and the effects of these innovations on prisoners and prison staff, this work will advance sociolegal and criminological understanding of penal exceptionalism, local-level prison innovation, and the experience of punishment. Findings will facilitate continued interchange of ideas that inform current U.S. policies and practices and contribute to a growing interest among policymakers in alternative incarceration models. Broader impacts include the training and education of undergraduate students and building an increasingly international community of punishment scholars.The research design extends U.S.-focused work to Denmark, a nation often touted as a model of humane and limited incarceration. Known in the U.S. primarily for its "open" prisons--facilities free of perimeter fences and at least partially integrated with non-prison communities--Denmark has a long but largely unacknowledged history of solitary confinement. This study takes the design and opening of Denmark's newest, high-tech, maximum-security prison with a dedicated isolation wing as a starting point for examining the causes and effects of the deepening divide between harsh and humane punishment. Providing a detailed, localized analysis of punishment innovation and experience, and employing methods that include examination of government documents, analysis of news coverage, and interviews with key prison managers, architects, policymakers, prisoners, and prison staff, the project traces the inception, implementation, and impact of a particular punishment innovation.

这项研究探讨了不断变化的惩罚和监禁做法的原因和影响，特别关注严酷的高安全性监狱和更人道的低安全性监狱之间日益加深的鸿沟。 该研究探讨了1）何时以及如何在刑事监禁中做出惩罚性较低的决定，2）囚犯和工作人员如何在不同的设施中体验这些决定的实施，3）是否以及如何在监狱安全级别之间改变刑罚意识，以及4）如何通过自下而上，地方一级的决策来发展惩罚创新。 通过发展的因素，有助于惩罚创新的监禁模式和这些创新对囚犯和监狱工作人员的影响有了更好的理解，这项工作将推进社会法学和刑事例外论，地方一级的监狱创新，和惩罚的经验犯罪学的理解。调查结果将促进思想的持续交流，为美国当前的政策和实践提供信息，并有助于决策者对替代监禁模式的兴趣日益浓厚。更广泛的影响包括本科生的培训和教育，以及建立一个日益国际化的惩罚学者社区。在丹麦，一个经常被吹捧为人道和有限监禁的典范的国家。在美国，丹麦主要以其“开放式”监狱而闻名--这些监狱没有围栏，至少部分与非监狱社区融为一体--丹麦有着悠久但基本上未被承认的单独监禁历史。本研究以丹麦最新的高科技最高安全监狱的设计和启用为出发点，审查严酷和人道惩罚之间日益加深的鸿沟的原因和影响。该项目对惩罚创新和经验进行了详细的本地化分析，并采用了包括审查政府文件、分析新闻报道以及采访主要监狱管理人员、建筑师、政策制定者、囚犯和监狱工作人员在内的方法，跟踪了特定惩罚创新的开始、实施和影响。