Understanding Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Prison Visitation and Recidivism

了解监狱探视与累犯之间关系中的性别、种族和民族差异

• 批准号: 1535351
• 负责人: Kevin Wright
• 金额: $ 16.89万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Gender; Racial; Ethnic; Differences

This project will examine the impact of prison visitation on recidivism with a focus on how this relationship may vary by gender and across racial and ethnic groups. The mass incarceration movement has done little to reduce the likelihood of continued criminal behavior by released offenders. Given that imprisonment rates have grown rapidly among women and racial and ethnic minorities, the harmful effects of incarceration are increasingly felt among these groups. Males and females, and prisoners from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, may have access to different levels and types of social support during imprisonment, and can face unique social and structural disadvantages upon their release from prison. As such, the quality of visitation encounters and the function that visits serve may differ across groups. The current project examines these possibilities by combining quantitative and qualitative data on prisoners in Arizona. Quantitative data on over 15,000 prisoners released from 2011-2013 will be used to establish broad patterns between visitation and recidivism among a racially and ethnically diverse population. Qualitative data from interviews on 231 prisoners currently incarcerated will provide more detailed information on inmates? experience with visitation. In combination, the analyses will help determine who benefits from prison visitation and why.

该项目将审查探视监狱对累犯的影响，重点放在这种关系如何因性别以及种族和族裔群体而异。大规模监禁运动在减少获释罪犯继续犯罪行为的可能性方面收效甚微。鉴于妇女以及种族和族裔少数群体的监禁率迅速上升，这些群体越来越感受到监禁的有害影响。男性和女性，以及来自不同种族和族裔背景的囚犯，在监禁期间可能获得不同程度和类型的社会支持，在出狱后可能面临独特的社会和结构劣势。因此，访问的质量和访问所提供的功能可能在不同的群体中有所不同。目前的项目通过结合亚利桑那州囚犯的定量和定性数据来检查这些可能性。2011-2013年期间释放的15,000多名囚犯的量化数据将被用来建立种族和族裔多元化人口中探视和累犯之间的广泛模式。对231名目前被监禁的囚犯的访谈的定性数据将提供关于囚犯的更详细的信息？探访体验。结合起来，这些分析将有助于确定谁从监狱探视中受益，以及为什么受益。