Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governance and Networks of Coordination in Community Diversion Programs

博士论文研究：社区分流项目的治理和协调网络

• 批准号: 1851033
• 负责人: JOHN JACKSON
• 金额: $ 1.03万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Governance; Networks

Major American cities have responded to rising incarceration rates with creative alternatives, such as Drug Courts and Mental Health Courts. These alternatives often depend on complex networks that connect municipal governments, not-for-profit organizations, and private service providers. The research supported by this award will examine the functioning and effectiveness of these coordinated collaborations. In addition, the researchers ask what effects decentralizing government has on outcomes, both for communities and for system clients. This is critical information for all stakeholders seeking to lower incarceration rates.The research will be undertaken in the city of Philadelphia by University of Pennsylvania anthropology doctoral candidate Tali Ziv, who is supervised by Dr. John L. Jackson, Jr. Philadelphia has been federally mandated to undertake efforts to reduce its large prison population. One response has been the Forensic Intensive Recovery (FIR) Program, a sentence reduction and community alternative program for substance abuse and minor mental illness. FIR engages two large nonprofit subcontracts and coordinates the jails, probation and parole, the courts, and nonprofit community based services; this makes it an ideal site for research on decentralized sentencing alternatives. The researcher will carry out ethnographic observations in the court room and in the community, document the daily work of FIR social workers, and interview judges, attorneys, counselors, clients, and criminal justice system representatives. In addition, she will collect data from archives to track the emergence of these novel institutional formations. Taken together, these data will allow her to understand the micro-processes through which coordination works, how the different layers of the criminal justice system and its community referrals build knowledge about one another, and what this means for understanding not only sentencing alternatives but also the nature of contemporary urban governance.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.

针对不断上升的监禁率，美国各大城市都采取了创造性的替代方案，如毒品法庭和精神健康法庭。这些替代方案通常依赖于连接市政府、非营利组织和私人服务提供商的复杂网络。该奖项支持的研究将检查这些协调合作的功能和有效性。此外，研究人员询问，政府权力下放对社区和系统客户的结果都有什么影响。对于所有寻求降低监禁率的利益相关者来说，这是至关重要的信息。宾夕法尼亚大学人类学博士生塔利·齐夫将在费城进行这项研究，他的导师是小约翰·L·杰克逊博士。费城已被联邦政府授权采取措施减少其庞大的监狱人口。一种回应是法医密集康复(FIR)计划，这是一项针对药物滥用和轻微精神疾病的减刑和社区替代计划。FIR聘用了两个大型非营利性分包合同，并协调监狱、缓刑和假释、法院和非营利性社区服务；这使其成为研究分散量刑替代方案的理想地点。研究人员将在法庭和社区进行人种学观察，记录FIR社会工作者的日常工作，并采访法官、律师、顾问、客户和刑事司法系统代表。此外，她还将从档案馆收集数据，追踪这些新的制度形态的出现。综上所述，这些数据将使她了解协调工作所通过的微观过程，刑事司法系统的不同层面及其社区转介如何建立对彼此的了解，以及这不仅对于理解量刑替代方案，而且对于理解当代城市治理的性质意味着什么。这一奖项反映了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，被认为值得支持。