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CAREER: The Instrumentalization of Law Through Veterans Treatment Courts

职业：通过退伍军人治疗法庭实现法律工具化

基本信息

批准号：
1845165
负责人：
Jamie Rowen
金额：
$ 50万
依托单位：
University of Massachusetts Amherst
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-02-01 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1845165&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Instrumentalization Law Through Veterans

项目摘要

Beginning in 2008, Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) emerged as one response to a growing concern that veterans are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system and have unique, unmet, needs. Each of the more than 500 VTCs around the country seeks to connect qualifying veterans with substance use and mental health services. This project examines why these courts have emerged and how they operate. Researchers examine the origins and practices of three distinct VTCs, one in Florida, California, and Massachusetts. Each address different community needs, with different rules related to participation, legal outcomes, and treatment plans. This project involves veteran students from different academic institutions in research focusing on how these courts seek to aid a uniquely vulnerable population.By examining the purpose and practice of VTCs, the project addresses why and how local legal innovations emerge to address entrenched social and political problems such as drug use, mental health disorders, poverty and war. Further, the research addresses how these innovations integrate logics from disparate institutional fields related to medicine, criminal justice, and social welfare. Finally, the analysis will reveal how authorities encourage compliance in legal institutions with contradictory goals related to punishment and rehabilitation. The project involves team-based, comparative, ethnographic analysis, including long-term observation of court hearings, interviews with VTC founders and personnel working locally and nationally, and the collection of legislative histories and institutional documents that explain the purpose and practice of each VTC, as well as national level initiatives to promote VTCs. Researchers use a grounded theory approach to analyze the data, drawing on theories related to therapeutic jurisprudence, procedural justice, and social welfare decision-making to explain why these courts are being created and how they fulfill their goals.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.

从2008年开始，退伍军人待遇法院（VTC）的出现是对越来越多的关注的一种回应，即退伍军人在刑事司法系统中的代表性不成比例，并且有独特的，未满足的需求。全国500多个VTC中的每一个都试图将合格的退伍军人与物质使用和心理健康服务联系起来。本项目研究这些法院为何出现以及它们如何运作。研究人员研究了三个不同的VTC的起源和实践，一个在佛罗里达，加州和马萨诸塞州。每一个解决不同的社区需求，与参与，法律的结果，和治疗计划不同的规则。该项目邀请来自不同学术机构的资深学生参与研究，重点关注这些法院如何寻求帮助一个独特的弱势群体，通过研究自愿培训中心的目的和做法，该项目探讨了为什么以及如何出现地方法律的创新，以解决根深蒂固的社会和政治问题，如吸毒、精神健康障碍、贫困和战争。此外，研究还涉及这些创新如何整合与医学，刑事司法和社会福利相关的不同机构领域的逻辑。最后，分析将揭示当局如何鼓励遵守法律的机构与矛盾的目标有关的惩罚和康复。该项目涉及以团队为基础的比较人种学分析，包括长期观察法庭听证会，采访职业培训中心的创始人和在当地和全国工作的人员，收集解释每个职业培训中心的宗旨和做法的立法历史和机构文件，以及国家一级促进职业培训中心的举措。研究人员使用扎根理论的方法来分析数据，利用与治疗法学，程序正义和社会福利决策相关的理论来解释为什么这些法院会被创建以及它们如何实现其目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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而被认为值得支持。