Righting recidivism: unlocking the cognitive underpinnings of successful interventions to reduce reoffending

纠正累犯：释放成功干预措施的认知基础，以减少再犯罪

• 批准号: MR/T041099/2
• 负责人: Martha Newson
• 金额: $ 45.62万
• 依托单位: University of Greenwich
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT041099%2F2
• 关键词: Righting; recidivism; unlocking; cognitive; underpinnings

Recidivism is one of the greatest socio-economic burdens the UK currently faces. At an estimated total cost of £18.1 billion a year, prison re-entry places a substantial burden on the national economy. This exacerbates reoffending's associated societal costs, including deviance, unstable communities and displacement. There is a 48% chance that an offender will go on to re-offend within a 12-month period, worsening the current prison overcrowding crisis, which is associated with severe mental health issues and a spread in infectious diseases. Re-offending rates are currently stable in the UK, providing an ideal time to conduct research into reducing them and the burden they place on the economy and wider civil society.We already know that powerful group identities lead people to enact extraordinary behaviours for their groups - from hardcore football fans travelling the globe for a game to gang members committing atrocities against their rivals. Can this problem be turned on its head to provide a solution? Can group passion be harnessed for the social good? More specifically, how can we foster positive social identities that are powerful enough to re-write offenders' self-narratives? I will apply the theoretical framework of 'identity fusion' - an intense, lasting form of social bonding - to prison populations. For the first time, this research integrates literatures on fusion to sports identities (as a catalyst for reform), shared experiences, women's roles in offending communities as well as men's, and approaches to intervention implementation.The proposed seven-year research project crosses disciplines and methodologies, and has secured support from major non-academic partners to address these questions, including the MoJ, HMPPS and the Twinning Project - a nationwide intervention that pairs major football clubs with prisons and gives football-industry training and sustainable social identities to prisoners. Primarily informed by anthropology, psychology and criminology, the project will create novel tools using cross-cultural practices, which can be applied nationwide to affect positive, viable societal change. This research is further supported by two postdoctoral researchers, a core team of carefully selected mentors, and five additional UK and international collaborators.Crucially, I focus on women within this framework - as pivotal actors within both the justice system and the communities that receive ex-offenders - though they are much neglected in both the literatures on identity fusion and re-offending. Despite representing just 5% of offenders, women account for a disproportionately high cost to the criminal justice system: policing females alone is estimated at £1bn a year. Nonetheless, they are also a particularly vulnerable population: 60% will have experienced domestic violence, around 25% have dependent children, and many of them self-harm (five times as many as men).As a recognised expert on social bonding and violence among football fans, I will draw upon my theoretical and applied knowledge to analyse existing interventions, design a toolkit for future interventions, and implement the researched practices in particularly vulnerable and critical populations (e.g. female and young offenders). This project will afford me recognition as a world leader in my field and help to grow a team of inter-disciplinary researchers, united by a passion to tackle reoffending.

累犯是英国目前面临的最伟大的社会经济伯恩斯之一。监狱重新进入每年的181亿英镑的总成本为181亿英镑。这加剧了重新定局相关的社会成本，包括偏差，不稳定的社区和流离失所。罪犯有48％的机会在12个月的时间内继续犯罪，担心目前的监狱过度拥挤的危机与严重的心理健康问题和传染病的传播有关。目前，英国的重新定罪率是稳定的，这是进行研究以减少它们的理想时间，并在经济和广泛的公民社会中燃烧它们。这个问题是否可以打开以提供解决方案？可以为社会利益而利用团体的激情？更具体地说，我们如何培养积极的社会身份，这些社会身份足以重新编写罪犯的自我叙事？我将将“身份融合”的理论框架（一种强烈的，持久的社会联系形式）应用于监狱人口。这项研究首次将有关融合到运动身份的文献（作为改革的催化剂），妇女在犯罪社区和男性中的角色以及男性的作用以及干预实施方法融合了文献。拟议的七年研究项目跨越了纪律和方法，并确保了包括这些问题的大型派对，包括这些问题，包括Moj，HMMP，HMMP，HMMPIART，HMMPIART有监狱的俱乐部，为囚犯提供足球行业培训和可持续的社会身份。该项目主要由人类学，心理学和犯罪学告知，将使用跨文化实践创建新颖的工具，可以在全国范围内应用这些工具，以影响积极，可行的社会变革。这项研究得到了两名博士后研究人员，由精心挑选的导师组成的核心团队以及另外五个英国和国际合作者的支持。至关重要的是，我专注于这个框架内的女性 - 作为司法系统中的关键参与者和接收前罪犯的社区 - 尽管在身份融合和重新犯下的文献中都忽略了这些罪犯。尽管仅占罪犯的5％，但妇女对刑事司法系统的成本不成比例：仅政策女性每年估计为10亿英镑。尽管如此，他们也是一个特别脆弱的人口：60％的人将经历家庭暴力，大约25％的孩子有依赖的孩子，其中许多人（五倍）是男性的公认专家。我将在足球迷之间的社会联系和暴力专家中，我将在理论上和应用的知识中利用我的理论和应用知识，以分析现有的干预措施，并实施较年轻的工具，并实施工具（以及工具习惯），并实施工具，并实施工具，并在研究中，并实施了工具，并实施了（以实施工具和工具）（在其上进行研究），并在研究中进行研究。罪犯）。这个项目将使我成为我领域的世界领导者的认可，并有助于成长一个跨学科研究人员的团队，并通过对解决重新犯罪的热情团结起来。

项目成果

'We need community': Bridging the path to desistance from crime with community football

“我们需要社区”：通过社区足球架起阻止犯罪的桥梁

• DOI: 10.1002/casp.2757
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Newson M