Collaborative Proposal: Adolescent Social Development During Incarceration

合作提案：监禁期间青少年的社会发展

• 批准号: 1826773
• 负责人: Caitlin Cavanagh
• 金额: $ 4.47万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 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: 2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826773&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Adolescent; Social; Development

Juvenile incarceration removes young people from their homes, schools, and communities during a period of substantial social development. Incarceration not only isolates adolescents from typical sources of socialization (e.g., family, friends, mentors, teachers, coaches) and increases exposure to antisocial influences (e.g., fellow inmates), but also reduces adolescents' opportunities to engage in traditional social interactions. This research examines the effects of juvenile incarceration on adolescents' social development and social relationship quality. Further, the study will explore potential ripple effects that such disruptions to social functioning may have on adolescents' mental health and future offending. The information garnered from this study may inform changes to juvenile justice policies and juvenile incarceration practices to reduce negative effects of incarceration on social development.This project consists of a longitudinal study of approximately 300 adolescents (13-17 years) across a period of two years. This sample will consist of three distinct groups of adolescents: 1) incarcerated adolescents, 2) adjudicated adolescents sentenced to community probation, and 3) community adolescents with no prior arrests. Participants will be statistically matched across the three groups on variables associated with incarceration (e.g., age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, prior behavior) to allow for inferences to be made about group-level differences in social development, relationship quality, mental health symptoms, and offending behavior, controlling for pre-existing differences on matched constructs. Participants will complete 7 structured interviews and five weeks of daily diary assessments about their social competence, social relationships, mental health symptoms, and criminal offending behavior. Official records of subsequent offending will also be provided for all justice-involved participants. The proposed research is the first study of its kind to directly disentangle the potential effects of juvenile incarceration on adolescent social development.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.

在一个社会发展的重要时期，青少年监禁使他们离开了家庭、学校和社区。监禁不仅使青少年与典型的社交来源（如家庭、朋友、导师、老师、教练）隔绝，而且增加了接触反社会影响（如狱友）的机会，而且还减少了青少年参与传统社会互动的机会。本研究旨在探讨青少年监禁对青少年社会发展及社会关系品质的影响。此外，该研究将探索这种社会功能中断可能对青少年心理健康和未来犯罪产生的潜在连锁反应。从本研究中获得的信息可能为改变青少年司法政策和青少年监禁实践提供信息，以减少监禁对社会发展的负面影响。该项目包括对大约300名青少年（13-17岁）进行为期两年的纵向研究。这个样本将由三组不同的青少年组成：1)被监禁的青少年，2)被判社区缓刑的青少年，以及3)没有前科的社区青少年。三组参与者将在与监禁相关的变量（如年龄、种族、社会经济地位、性别、前科行为）上进行统计匹配，以便对社会发展、关系质量、心理健康症状和犯罪行为等群体层面的差异进行推断，控制匹配构念上的预先存在差异。参与者将完成7个结构化访谈和5周的日常日记评估，内容涉及他们的社会能力、社会关系、心理健康症状和犯罪行为。随后犯罪的正式记录也将提供给所有涉及司法的参与者。这项拟议的研究是同类研究中首次直接理清青少年监禁对青少年社会发展的潜在影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。