REU Site: Studying Race and Policing in the Complex Social Interaction Lab

该项目由社会，行为和经济科学理事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。这种可再生能源具有科学和社会效益。在科学方面，该项目采用科学方法，研究种族在警官和社区成员之间互动中的作用。在社会效益方面，这项研究将有助于产生对警察互动的理解，特别是了解警察互动的原因以及如何改进。该计划向REU参与者传授从事科学研究的知识，技能和能力，同时展示此类研究如何通过影响警察与社区互动的积极变化来改善社区繁荣和福利。此外，该项目还开展研究，以提高参与警察-社区互动的社区成员和官员的安全。最后，该计划通过招募来自不同背景的学生来支持教育和多样性，这些学生将被嵌入到一个合作和跨学科的研究环境中，在那里他们将发展研究技能，提高他们为社会做出有意义贡献的能力。复杂社会互动实验室REU培训本科研究人员，特别是但不限于那些来自代表性不足的人群，以数据为导向的社会科学方法来研究种族和警务。该网站强调有前途的学生的招聘，培训和参与研究，以解决三个相互关联的项目：种族和警察使用武力，2）种族和去警察升级战术，3）种族和程序公正警务。方法论方法侧重于编码视频和音频数据，基本到中级定量方法，以及GIS，时间序列分析，数据分析和数据可视化中的高级应用。此外，该项目还强调了方法严谨性和分析创造性的重要性，以制定有效和可靠的措施，并通过对佩戴在身上的摄像机镜头进行客观编码来解释这些数据，利用这些镜头作为警务研究的新数据来源。学生将有机会使用这些方法来生成创新数据，并有机会发表同行评审的研究。该项目的目标是1）招募有前途的学生，2）提供整合理论，方法和应用的真实的世界研究机会，3）增加有关警务和种族的知识，4）发展专业技能，5）为学生准备研究生院和其他职业机会。该网站由国防部ASSURE计划与NSF REU计划合作支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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。

This project is funded by the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. This REU provides both scientific and societal benefits. In terms of science, this project engages the scientific method examining the role of race in how interactions between police officers and community members unfold. In terms of societal benefits, this research will help generate understanding of police interactions, with a specific focus of understanding why police interactions vary and how they can be improved. This program imparts the knowledge, skills, and abilities to engage in scientific research to REU participants, while demonstrating how such research can improve community prosperity and welfare by affecting positive change in police-community interactions. In addition, this project generates research that will increase the safety of community members and officers involved in police-community interactions. Lastly, this program supports education and diversity by recruiting students from diverse backgrounds who will be embedded into a collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment where they will develop research skills which improve their ability to make meaningful contributions to society.The Complex Social Interaction Lab REU trains undergraduate researchers, especially, but not limited to, those from underrepresented populations, on data-oriented social science approaches to the study of race and policing. The site emphasizes the recruitment, training, and participation in research of promising students to address three interrelated projects: race and police use of force, 2) race and de-police escalation tactics, and 3) race and procedurally just policing. The methodological approaches focus on coding video and audio data, basic to intermediate quantitative methods, and advanced applications in GIS, time-series analysis, data analytics, and data visualizations. Additionally, this project reinforces the importance of methodological rigor and analytical creativity in generating valid and reliable measures and interpreting those data by way of the objective coding of body worn camera footage, making use of such footage as a novel source of data for the study of policing. Students will have the opportunity to use these methods to generate innovative data and the opportunity to publish peer-reviewed research. The goals of this project are to 1) recruit promising students, 2) provide real world research opportunities that integrate theory, methods, and application, 3) increase knowledge regarding policing and the race, 4) develop professional skills, and 5) prepare students for graduate school and for other career opportunities. This site is supported by the Department of Defense ASSURE program in partnership with the NSF REU program.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.