Crime Rates during the Pandemic

大流行期间的犯罪率

• 批准号: 2213343
• 负责人: Emily Backes
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2213343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Crime; Rates; during; Pandemic

Recent upticks in certain crimes, such as homicide, has garnered a great deal of public attention and media coverage, with little nuanced discussion of data, explanations, or possible policy implications. The increase in violent crime has sparked widespread concern but little rigorous discussion over causes or data needs. Crime and public safety is of critical importance to federal, state, and local officials, and interjecting critical analysis based in data and social and behavioral science will contribute to our nation’s understanding of how best to shape policy responses to crime increases during the pandemic with an emphasis on data and research needs for rigorous policy evaluation.The proposed workshop will review the available data and analyses of changes in multiple offense types during the pandemic. Key issues will include: the strengths and limitations of existing data, differing results depending on the source and type of data, and the association between crime rate changes and pandemic-related restrictions on population mobility. The activity will explore existing explanations, focusing on the social and behavioral theories that inform them, the types of crime to which they do and do not apply, and the types of data needed to test them. The proceedings resulting from the proposed workshop will be made publicly available and widely disseminated, which will benefit not only researchers and policymakers, but a broad range of criminal justice stakeholders and the public. Such knowledge will also help to identify future basic research and data needs.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.

最近某些犯罪的上升，如凶杀案，引起了公众的极大关注和媒体的报道，几乎没有对数据、解释或可能的政策影响进行细微的讨论。暴力犯罪的增加引发了广泛的担忧，但几乎没有关于原因或数据需求的严格讨论。犯罪和公共安全对联邦、州和地方官员至关重要，插入基于数据以及社会和行为科学的批判性分析将有助于我国理解如何最好地制定应对大流行期间犯罪增加的政策，重点放在严格政策评估的数据和研究需求上。拟议的研讨会将审查可用数据和对大流行期间多种犯罪类型变化的分析。关键问题将包括：现有数据的优势和局限性，不同数据来源和类型的不同结果，以及犯罪率变化与与大流行有关的人口流动限制之间的联系。该活动将探索现有的解释，重点是告知他们的社会和行为理论，他们适用和不适用的犯罪类型，以及测试他们所需的数据类型。拟议讲习班产生的程序将向公众公布并广泛传播，这不仅将使研究人员和政策制定者受益，而且将使广泛的刑事司法利益攸关方和公众受益。这些知识还将有助于确定未来的基础研究和数据需求。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。