Dissertation Research: Social Costs of Incarceration

近年来，很大比例的少数群体男性直接卷入刑事司法系统。该项目涉及耶鲁大学人类学学生的论文研究，研究华盛顿特区肖社区监禁的社会成本，估计超过40%的黑人男子处于某种形式的矫正监督之下-假释，缓刑，戒毒等，在任何一天。 该项目将研究少数群体年轻男性被监禁对他们获释后重新参与社区生活的影响，以及在他们被拘留期间和出狱后对其家庭的影响。 此外，本研究将分析当地关于种族的话语和当地对刑事司法系统道德的看法。 方法将是在社区进行一般性的参与观察，以及与当地警察、律师、部长、政府官员和居民进行正式访谈。 将与没有刑事司法系统经验的家庭以及目前有被监禁成员的家庭进行一系列访谈。 学生将专注于资源共享和家庭的支持网络，因为他们科普一个成员的缺席。 这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对市中心社区监禁率增加的影响的理解。 新的信息将对试图减轻监禁对家庭和社区的负面影响的决策者很有价值。

In recent years a large proportion of minority males have experienced direct involvement with the criminal justice system. This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Yale University, studying the social costs of incarceration in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington DC, where over 40% of the black men are estimated to be under some form of correctional supervision-parole, probation, drug rehabilitation, etc., on any given day. The project will study the effects of the prison incarceration of young minority males on their own reinvolvement in the community after their release, and on their families, while they are in custody and after they come out. In addition the study will analyze the local discourse on race and local perceptions of the morality of the criminal justice system. The method will be general participant observation in the neighborhood as well as formal interviews with local police, lawyers, ministers, public officials and residents. A set of interviews will be conducted with families with no experience with the criminal justice system as well as those with currently incarcerated members. The student will focus on resource sharing and networks of support of the families as they cope with the absence of a member. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of the effects of increased incarceration rates in inner city neighborhoods. The new information will be valuable to policy makers trying to ameliorate the negative impact of incarceration on households and communities.