Doctoral Dissertation Research: What is crime in the context of post-conflict?

博士论文研究：冲突后背景下的犯罪是什么？

• 批准号: 2215292
• 负责人: Clara Han
• 金额: $ 1.97万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 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: 2022-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; What; crime

Restorative justice courts provide alternate means of mitigating conflict in post-war contexts. As opposed to traditional, punitive measures more common in civil courts, restorative justice courts create opportunities for victims and perpetrators to engage in meaningful encounters that strive toward peace. Are such courts more effective at achieving peace? How do definitions of crime and peace vary in relation to judicial systems? To shed light on these questions, this doctoral dissertation research uses theory from cultural anthropology and legal studies to ask how the type of court affects definitions of crime and who is considered a criminal in a post-conflict setting. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical data collection and analysis, the project disseminates results broadly to academic and non-academic audiences.The project focuses on research questions surrounding how violence and crime are defined, including the boundaries between ordinary and political crimes, and how experiences in judicial systems affect livelihoods of stakeholders. The investigators conduct an ethnographic study involving court-based ethnography, observational methods, interviews, and archival analysis to answer project questions. In so doing, this doctoral research contributes to academic scholarship on the role of transitional justice and criminal law in post-conflict democracy and peacebuilding.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.

恢复性司法法院提供了缓解战后冲突的替代手段。与民事法院中更为常见的传统惩罚性措施相反，恢复性司法法院为受害者和犯罪者创造了机会，使他们能够进行有意义的接触，争取和平。这样的法庭在实现和平方面是否更有效？犯罪与和平的定义在司法系统中有何不同？为了阐明这些问题，这篇博士论文研究使用文化人类学和法律的研究理论，询问法院的类型如何影响犯罪的定义，以及谁被认为是冲突后环境中的罪犯。除了资助一名人类学研究生接受经验数据收集和分析方法的培训外，该项目还向学术界和非学术界人士广泛传播成果，重点研究如何界定暴力和犯罪的问题，包括普通犯罪和政治犯罪之间的界限，以及司法系统的经验如何影响利益攸关方的生计。调查人员进行一项民族志研究，涉及基于法院的民族志，观察方法，访谈和档案分析，以回答项目问题。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，被认为值得支持。