Build and Broaden 2.0: Understanding Barriers to Equity in Public Safety Policies

构建和拓展 2.0：了解公共安全政策中的公平障碍

• 批准号: 2126938
• 负责人: Judah Viola
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: National-Louis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2126938&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Build; Broaden; 2.0; Understanding; Barriers

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The goal of the proposed research is to gain new insights into current barriers to equity in public safety policy. The proposed research employs mixed-method approaches to better understand psychological characteristics and their relation to changes in public safety policy aimed at greater levels of equity. Disparities are present in virtually all aspects of public safety, including exposure to neighborhood violence, emergency response times and dispatch, overall enforcement, prosecution and conviction rate, pretrial detention bail and bond levels, and sentencing. This study will employ mixed-method approaches focused on the population of people who appear to benefit from inequity, as well as the barriers to their acceptance of new policies and practices. This is important because it deviates from most inquiry, which tends to pathologize marginalized communities through research that centers suffering as opposed to inequity, with little attention given to potential sources. The project will use a three-phased research approach. Phase 1 will explore the characteristics (e.g., values, age, race, personality, and attitudes) that predict opposition to changes in public safety policies and funding, across five areas of change, using a recently passed series of policy changes in state-level public safety policy. Phase 2 will take a closer look at the relationships between values, attitudes, characteristics and resistance to change among distinct groups of state residents in order to better understand overlapping and unique barriers to change across subgroups. Phase 3 will consist of qualitative interviews with a subset of survey participants from the first two phases to identify the theories that best explain support for and resistance to these policy changes. Therefore, this study of the barriers to reducing inequities through policy changes may increase understanding of barriers to attaining public-safety equity nationally.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。拟议研究的目标是获得新的见解，目前的障碍，公平的公共安全政策。拟议的研究采用混合方法的方法，以更好地了解心理特征及其与旨在提高公平水平的公共安全政策变化的关系。差异几乎存在于公共安全的所有方面，包括邻里暴力的暴露、应急响应时间和调度、整体执法、起诉和定罪率、审前拘留保释和保证金水平以及判刑。这项研究将采用混合方法，重点关注似乎受益于不平等的人群，以及他们接受新政策和做法的障碍。这一点很重要，因为它偏离了大多数调查，这些调查倾向于通过以痛苦为中心而不是不平等的研究将边缘化社区病态化，很少关注潜在的来源。 该项目将采用三阶段研究方法。第一阶段将探索特征（例如，价值观，年龄，种族，个性和态度），预测反对公共安全政策和资金的变化，在五个变化领域，使用最近通过的一系列政策变化，在国家一级的公共安全政策。 第二阶段将更仔细地研究不同的州居民群体之间的价值观、态度、特征和对变革的抵制之间的关系，以便更好地了解各亚群体之间相互重叠和独特的变革障碍。第三阶段将包括对前两个阶段的一部分调查参与者进行定性访谈，以确定最能解释支持和抵制这些政策变化的理论。因此，这项研究的障碍，以减少不公平的政策变化可能会增加障碍，以实现公共安全公平nationals.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命的理解，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。