Community Policing, Governance, and Security

社区警务、治理和安全

• 批准号: 1728823
• 负责人: Laurence Ralph
• 金额: $ 23.38万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1728823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Community; Policing; Governance; Security

This project seeks to explore how different stakeholders grapple with national debates about community policing and enforcement by examining the problems articulated and the solutions proposed in New Orleans, Louisiana. As the city with the highest rate of incarceration in the world, New Orleans is an ideal site to understand policing. It also has a community policing program in place that allows the researchers the opportunity to methodologically evaluate police-citizen relationships. The current climate of heightened awareness around policing demands a comprehensive study of policing, rooted in rigorous, historical, ethnographic analysis. The project would train graduate students in methods of scientifically-grounded and empirical data collection. Project findings will also be presented to non-academic audiences, improving efforts to communicate science to the public. The project has clear plans to engage with the policy community, police organizations, and community organizations on this topic, engaging stakeholders in policy-relevant collaborations. Lastly, the project would broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences.Dr. Laurence Ralph and Dr. Aisha Beliso-De Jesus of Harvard will conduct and ethnographic study of police-citizen relations in New Orleans, Louisiana. How do different stakeholders understand what constitutes effectives methods of policing, security, and governance in this community? Through a mixed-methodological approach that employs qualitative surveys, participant observation, in-depth interviews, social media analysis, ethnographic mapping, and team-based qualitative data coding, this research has the potential to transform the way police enforcement is scientifically measured and understood. This research will advance anthropological theories of policing, force, and governance. The project promises coherent generalizable model that deals with the complexities of police force and will be useful to anthropologists, political scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, and criminologists who study the racial and social disparities in policing, racial bias among police officers, and others who have expressed difficulty in standardizing data on police use of force.

该项目旨在探讨不同的利益相关者如何通过研究在路易斯安那州新奥尔良提出的问题和解决方案，与全国辩论社区警务和执法斗争。作为世界上监禁率最高的城市，新奥尔良是了解警务的理想场所。它还制定了一个社区警务计划，使研究人员有机会从方法上评估警察与公民的关系。当前围绕警务的意识提高的气氛要求对警务进行全面研究，植根于严格的历史人种学分析。该项目将培训研究生掌握有科学依据的经验数据收集方法。项目的研究结果也将向非学术界的听众介绍，从而加强向公众传播科学的努力。该项目有明确的计划，与政策界、警察组织和社区组织就这一主题进行接触，使利益攸关方参与与政策有关的合作。最后，该项目将扩大代表性不足的群体对科学的参与，哈佛的Laurence Ralph博士和Aisha Beliso-De Jesus博士将在路易斯安那州新奥尔良对警察与公民的关系进行人种学研究。不同的利益相关者如何理解什么是这个社区中有效的治安、安全和治理方法？通过采用定性调查，参与者观察，深入访谈，社交媒体分析，人种学绘图和基于团队的定性数据编码的混合方法，这项研究有可能改变警察执法的方式，科学地衡量和理解。这项研究将推进警务，武力和治理的人类学理论。该项目承诺连贯的可推广的模型，处理警察部队的复杂性，将是有用的人类学家，政治学家，社会心理学家，社会学家和犯罪学家谁研究种族和社会差异的警务，警察之间的种族偏见，和其他人谁表示难以标准化的数据对警察使用武力。