Doctoral Dissertation Research: Law Enforcement Recruitment and Training and Their Effects

在这个项目中，调查了招聘和培训与组织人员随后的反应之间的关系，具体涉及到执法人员的招聘和培训以及武力的使用。讨论了三个主要问题：(1)执法部门如何决定雇用谁？(2)执法人员如何接受使用武力的培训？(3)关于执法部门如何概念化人口特征和武力，招聘战略和培训实践揭示了什么？招募和培训是执法人员使用武力的未得到充分研究的组成部分。通过关注招聘和培训，这项研究将增加学术界对它们在解释组织人员批判性行为方面的重要性的理解。它将帮助学者、执法部门和其他利益相关者更好地了解组织变革可能发生的方式。它的调查结果还将为制定新的征聘和培训方法提供重要的见解。本项目采用人种志和访谈的方法，对执法部门的招聘和培训进行了研究。人种学活动包括出席招聘和聘用活动，观察课堂教学，以及参加培训活动，包括基于情景的培训。这40名受访者包括训练中的新兵、训练单位的人员、招录单位的人员和从事正规工作的执法人员。面试遵循半结构化的形式，受访者被问到关于他们的背景、他们的职业决定、招聘和培训过程以及他们对使用武力和相关问题的看法的开放式问题。对回应的分析和比较，结合人种学观察，允许发展对招募和培训对随后使用武力的影响的理论洞察。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In this project, the relationship of recruitment and training to the subsequent responses of organizational personnel is investigated with specific reference to the recruitment and training of law enforcement personnel and the use of force. Three principal questions are addressed: (1) How do law enforcement departments decide whom to hire? (2) How are law enforcement officers trained to use force? (3) What do the recruitment strategies and training practices reveal about how law enforcement departments conceptualize demographic characteristics and force? Recruitment and training are understudied components of the use of force by law enforcement personnel. By focusing on recruitment and training, this study will increase scholarly understanding of their importance in explaining the critical behavior of organizational personnel. It will help scholars, law enforcement departments, and other stakeholders better understand how organizational change may occur. Its findings also will provide important insights into the development of new approaches to recruitment and training. Recruitment and training in law enforcement departments are researched in this project using the methods of ethnography and interviews. The ethnographic activities include attendance at recruiting and hiring events, observation of classroom instruction, and participation in training activities including scenario-based training. The 40 interviewees include recruits in training, personnel in training units, personnel in recruiting and hiring units, and law enforcement personnel engaged in regular duties. Interviews follow a semi-structured format, in which the interviewees are asked open-ended questions about their background, their career decision, the hiring and training process, and their opinions concerning the use of force and related issues. Analysis and comparison of the responses, combined with the ethnographic observation, allow the development of theoretical insight into the effects of recruitment and training on subsequent use of force.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.