Development of Evidence-Based Viral Pandemic Guidelines for Community Corrections

制定社区矫正循证病毒大流行指南

• 批准号: 2215111
• 负责人: Jill Viglione
• 金额: $ 67万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215111&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Evidence; Based; Viral; Pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, community supervision agencies (i.e., pretrial, probation and/or parole) adapted practices to address public safety goals for supervising individuals in the community and for reducing the spread of COVID-19. Community supervision agencies had to drastically adapt policies to manage social distancing during supervision contacts and provide assistance to individuals to achieve supervision goals. One of the greatest challenges during the pandemic was the lack of clear and consistent guidelines for supervision agencies to use. This project combines research-based findings about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community supervision agencies, experiences of clients, and supervision officers during the pandemic. These findings along with feedback from a panel of experts from a variety of fields will be used to achieve two primary goals: 1) development of a comprehensive evidence-based understanding of the response to and impact of COVID-19 on the field of community supervision; and 2) application of the collected evidence to develop empirically-supported pandemic response guidelines for supervision agencies. The value of this effort is to systematically learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future pandemics. Collectively, these efforts will improve both knowledge and practice by contributing to developing a knowledgebase of empirical evidence and a toolkit for practitioners and agencies to use in the future. This study is informed by three main research questions: 1) What responses during COVID-19 were successful and unsuccessful in community supervision agencies? 2) What are the short and long-term impacts of how supervision agencies responded during COVID-19?; and 3) What are the better strategies to implement in response to future pandemics or emergency situations? We will use a multi-staged approach involving research evaluation of responses and impact of responses in three jurisdictions and collaboration with experts across relevant fields to inform two key deliverables. These deliverables include a database of successful practices and policies for the field and Practice Guidelines for the Community Corrections Responses to Viral Pandemics. This project has the potential to expand what has already been done on the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of supervision through a comprehensive consensus building process using the RAND/UCLA model. This will identify adaptations to community supervision practice and the impact of those adaptations for agencies, supervision officers, and individuals under supervision. This project includes multiple perspectives and examines the impact of pandemic responses on key outcomes to advance knowledge, inform evidence-based tools for the community supervision field, and identify areas for possible reform.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.

在 COVID-19 大流行期间，社区监督机构（即审前、缓刑和/或假释）调整了做法，以实现公共安全目标，以监督社区中的个人并减少 COVID-19 的传播。社区监督机构必须大幅调整政策，以管理监督接触期间的社交距离，并为个人提供帮助以实现监督目标。大流行期间最大的挑战之一是缺乏明确、一致的指导方针供监管机构使用。该项目结合了有关 COVID-19 大流行对社区监管机构、客户的经验和大流行期间监管官员的影响的研究结果。这些发现以及来自各个领域的专家小组的反馈将用于实现两个主要目标：1）对 COVID-19 对社区监督领域的反应和影响建立全面的基于证据的理解； 2) 应用收集到的证据为监管机构制定有经验支持的流行病应对指南。这项工作的价值在于系统地从 COVID-19 大流行中吸取教训，并为未来的大流行做好准备。总的来说，这些努力将有助于开发经验证据的知识库和供从业者和机构未来使用的工具包，从而改善知识和实践。本研究围绕三个主要研究问题：1) 在 COVID-19 期间，社区监督机构的哪些应对措施是成功的，哪些是失败的？ 2) 监管机构在 COVID-19 期间的应对措施有何短期和长期影响？ 3）针对未来的流行病或紧急情况，有哪些更好的策略可以实施？我们将采用多阶段方法，包括对三个司法管辖区的应对措施和应对措施的影响进行研究评估，并与相关领域的专家合作，以提供两项关键成果。这些可交付成果包括该领域的成功实践和政策数据库以及社区惩戒应对病毒大流行的实践指南。该项目有潜力通过使用兰德公司/加州大学洛杉矶分校模型建立全面的共识过程，扩大监管领域针对 COVID-19 大流行所做的工作。这将确定对社区监督实践的调整以及这些调整对机构、监督官员和受监督个人的影响。该项目包括多个视角，并研究了流行病应对措施对关键成果的影响，以增进知识、为社区监督领域提供基于证据的工具，并确定可能改革的领域。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。