Doctoral Dissertation Research: Residential Segregation and Policing Styles

居住隔离和治安风格这个项目探讨了不同地方的人们经历根本不同的治安风格的过程。它以一个警察部门的项目为例，该项目是在一个高度隔离的铁锈地带城市的背景下重新划定其地区边界的。与许多旨在更均匀地在一个辖区内分配城市服务的重新划分努力相反，这次重新划分旨在将不同的警务问题集中在新的区域内。在这样做的过程中，它创造了更多种族同质的地区，并为警务实践的分歧打开了大门。本研究考察了这一改革的动机和后果。它旨在通过确定整个城市警务优先事项的关系和社会构建性质，扩大我们对警察在社会控制和服务提供项目中发挥的各种作用的理解。这项研究有可能为警务工作提供信息，并改善警察与警察之间的关系。研究人员通过一种多方法设计，将种族居住隔离的结构背景与制度优先事项联系起来，从而形成实地警务，描述了重新划分的动机和后果。首先，研究人员将采访80名参与或受重划影响的利益相关者，以确定构成重划过程的网络和利益。接下来，研究人员通过对两个受影响最严重的地区进行为期一年的人种学观察，探讨了目前地区一级警察工作的社会组织。最后，研究人员通过对服务呼叫数据、逮捕和传讯数据、犯罪数据和人口统计数据的纵向分析，描述了这种变化的预期和意外后果。在研究居住隔离与警务风格之间的关系时，研究者发现警务的动态不仅重新标记和维持隔离边界，而且通过在城市中积极创造不同类型的空间来重构隔离的本质。因此，这项研究不仅有助于犯罪社会学、犯罪学和社区研究，而且有助于加强警察与警察之间的关系。它有助于理解如何改变导致以这些关系为特征的实质性和象征性种族差异的进程，并关注更广泛的历史和体制进程以及体制一级的任务。

Residential Segregation and Policing StylesThis project explores the processes by which different places, and thus people, come to experience fundamentally different styles of policing. It uses the case of a police department's project of redrawing its district boundaries in the context of a highly segregated Rust Belt city. In contrast to many redistricting efforts that aim to more evenly distribute urban service provision across a jurisdiction, this redistricting intended to concentrate distinct policing problems within the new districts. In so doing, it created more racially homogenous districts and opened the door for divergence in policing practices. This study examines the motivations for and consequences of this reform. It aims to expand our understanding of the varied roles that the police play in projects of social control and service provision by identifying the relational and socially constructed nature of policing priorities across the city. The research has the potential to inform policing and to improve relationships between police and the policed.The researcher describes the motivations for and consequences of the redistricting through a multi-method design that links the structural context of racial residential segregation to institutional priorities that in turn shape on-the-ground policing. First, the researcher will interview 80 stakeholders involved in or affected by the redistricting in order to identify the networks and interests that structured the redistricting process. Next, the researcher explores the current social organization of police work at the district-level through a year of ethnographic observation of two of the most affected districts. Finally, the researcher describes the intended and unintended consequences of the change through longitudinal analysis of calls for service data, arrest and citation data, crime data, and demographic data. In examining the relationship between residential segregation and policing styles, the researcher identifies the dynamics of policing that not only re-inscribe and maintain segregation boundaries, but reconstitute the nature of segregation by actively creating different kinds of spaces in the city. Thus, this research both contributes to sociology of crime, criminology and community studies but it also contributes to strengthening the relationship between police and the policed. It contributes to understanding how to change the processes that lead to the material and symbolic racial disparities that characterizes these relationships and attends to broader historical and institutional processes as well as mandates at the institutional level.