Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community Supervision in the Face of Sociocultural Divides

博士论文研究：面对社会文化鸿沟的社区监督

• 批准号: 1823779
• 负责人: Calvin Morrill
• 金额: $ 1.32万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823779&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Community; Supervision

Given bipartisan concerns about contemporary incarceration levels in the U.S., policymakers and citizens alike are again becoming interested in community supervision as a promising pathway toward prison downsizing. Most research about community supervision tends to focus on whether or not it can effectively serve as an alternative to incarceration. Little prior research addresses a central challenge arising from the increased interaction between frontline criminal justice workers and supervised individuals: the challenge of working closely together across longstanding sociocultural divides. This project aims to provide insight into the conditions under which empathy and trust can develop and be sustained across such divides. In turn, this project could help devise safer and more equitable models for ongoing, sustainable interaction between criminal justice workers and supervised individuals.This project combines ethnographic, interview and historical methods to study the workings of community supervision in the liminal spaces amid criminal justice, on the one hand, and local communities on the other. Focusing on probation work as an empirical window for observing ongoing interactions between criminal justice workers and members of supervised communities, the project interrogates how frontline criminal justice workers understand the cultural and political worlds of such communities and their attitudes toward the state and the law; as well as how supervised individuals understand and come to manage their ongoing interaction with the criminal justice system. Direct observation of interaction among criminal justice workers and supervised persons supplemented by in-depth interviews will yield a comprehensive picture of how situated understandings of sociocultural difference vary and are negotiated between differently-situated actors and across state institutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

鉴于两党对美国当代监禁水平的担忧，决策者和公民都再次对社区监督感兴趣，认为这是缩小监狱规模的一条有希望的途径。大多数关于社区监督的研究往往集中在它是否可以有效地作为监禁的替代方案。以前很少有研究涉及一线刑事司法工作者和受监督个人之间互动增加所产生的一个核心挑战：跨越长期存在的社会文化鸿沟密切合作的挑战。该项目旨在深入了解在何种条件下，同情心和信任可以发展和维持跨越这些鸿沟。反过来，这个项目可以帮助设计更安全和更公平的模式，为刑事司法工作者和被监督的个人之间的持续，可持续的互动，这个项目结合人种学，访谈和历史的方法来研究社区监督的工作，在阈空间中的刑事司法，一方面，另一方面，当地社区。专注于缓刑工作作为观察刑事司法工作者和受监督社区成员之间持续互动的经验窗口，该项目询问前线刑事司法工作者如何理解这些社区的文化和政治世界以及他们对国家和法律的态度;以及受监督的个人如何理解并管理他们与刑事司法系统的持续互动。通过对刑事司法工作者和受监督人员之间互动的直接观察，并辅以深入访谈，将全面了解对社会文化差异的理解是如何变化的，以及在不同位置的行为者和国家机构之间进行谈判的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。