A Meta-Analysis of Influences on Social Control

这个项目将考察社会控制的多个维度。为了做到这一点，这项研究将对考察了对社会控制的各种影响的研究进行元分析。该项目将通过评估多重结果和使用荟萃分析而不是叙述性审查来评估背景对社会控制的影响的经验有效性和概括性，从而克服文献中的局限性。这项研究将通过社会控制的各种影响对文学作品进行最先进的评估。不重视社会控制的多个层面，包括执法、监禁和判刑、法律和政策以及非正式社会控制，对被称为少数群体威胁视角的理论概念造成了不充分和临时的考验。这一差距是至关重要的，因为它使人们对MTP的有效性产生了怀疑，MTP可以说是用于解释种族和民族背景与社会控制之间关系的最突出的理论视角。为了克服这些限制，该项目将采用荟萃分析，分析和综合过去40年发表的100多项研究，这些研究涉及社会控制的多个维度的各种影响。因此，该项目将评估MTP得到经验支持的程度，并可在不同的背景下推广。该奖项反映了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。

This project will examine the multiple dimensions of social control. To do so, the research will undertake a meta-analysis of studies that have examined various influences on social control. The project will overcome limitations in the literature by assessing multiple outcomes and using meta-analysis rather than narrative reviews to assess the empirical validity and generalizability of context effects on social control. This research will provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the literature across assorted influences of social control. Inattention to multiple dimensions of social control, including law enforcement, incarceration and sentencing, laws and policies, and informal social control, provides an inadequate and ad hoc test of the theoretical concept known as the minority threat perspective (MTP). This gap is critical because it leaves in doubt the validity of the MTP, arguably the most prominent theoretical perspective used to explain the relationship between racial and ethnic context and social control. To overcome these limitations, the project will employ a meta-analysis by analyzing and synthesizing the more than 100 studies that have been published in the last four decades on the various effects on multiple dimensions of social control. The project will thus assess the extent to which the MTP is empirically supported and is generalizable across different contexts.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.