Research and Training for a Better Understanding of the Race/Ethnicity-Crime and Criminal Justice Link

SES-0531536露丝·彼得森·劳伦·克里沃俄亥俄州立大学这个项目建立在一个正在进行的合作和跨学科项目的基础上，旨在实现以下具体目标：(1)扩大并进一步明确解释种族/族裔--犯罪/刑事司法联系的广泛议程；(2)制定针对具体议程的研究项目；以及(3)通过加强研究活动和青年学者的专业发展，扩大对犯罪和刑事司法研究的参与，以便在该领域进行创新分析。该项目意义重大，因为它将推动该领域向前发展，提供对种族、族裔、犯罪和刑事司法在什么程度、如何以及为什么相互关联的更有意义、更全面和更细致入微的理解。重要的是，该项目的学术价值将是扩大我们目前对犯罪和刑事司法中种族和族裔含义的理解，同时还将所观察到的联系的知识嵌入到社会群体的更广泛定位(种族/族裔结构)的背景中。为实现上述具体目标，计划开展两类活动。首先，督导人员将举办一连串的工作坊和相关会议。第一个研讨会将与在加拿大多伦多举行的美国犯罪学学会2005年年会同时举行。第二次会议将于2006年6月或7月在俄亥俄州哥伦布市举行。在这些会议期间，将开展议程制定活动，包括查明以往讲习班所产生的研究方面的差距，并讨论在现有知识的背景下传播和确定议程项目的更多途径。讲习班和会议还将作为为合作研究项目确定主题和资金来源的工具，以解决种族、族裔、犯罪和刑事司法研究中被忽视的主要问题。然后，小团队将致力于开发设计，并与较大的研究小组的反馈一起为项目寻求资金。我们扩大对种族/族裔--犯罪/刑事司法联系的了解的第二个机制是，为来自代表性不足群体的年轻学者举办夏季研究和专业发展研究所。在该研究所，每个参与者将在一个“安全”和资源丰富的环境中完成一个有指导的培训和指导的研究项目。在研究所达到顶峰时，将举行一个小型会议，与会者向参与该项目的更广泛的学者介绍他们的工作。这将为研究所的参与者提供一个额外的机制，以获得反馈并与该领域的其他高级和初级学者发展关系(网络)。夏令营将于2006年夏天在俄亥俄州的哥伦布市举行。这个项目的结构是为了对学术和学院产生几个具体的更广泛的影响。首先，它将向更大的研究界发出信号，说明提高一个重要领域的知识所需的研究问题的类型、理论框架和方法战略。第二，它将利用在许多方面(例如，种族和族裔、学科培训和职业阶段)不同的学者的专门知识，制定重大的创新研究项目，考虑到种族/族裔的复杂性，并将分析嵌入社会群体的不同定位。第三，它将通过促进代表不足群体的学者的职业生涯，扩大对犯罪和司法研究的参与。综合起来，这些将产生更广泛的影响，使研究和课程具有多样化和创新性的观点，从而对种族和族裔在未来的犯罪和刑事司法决定等结果中的作用产生新的见解。

SES- 0531536Ruth PetersonLauren KrivoOhio State University This project builds on an ongoing collaborative and interdisciplinary project designed to achieve the following specific objectives: (1) to expand and further specify a broad agenda for explaining the race/ethnicity-crime/criminal justice link; (2) develop research projects that address the specified agenda; and (3) broaden participation in crime and criminal justice research by enhancing the research activities and the professional development of young scholars for carrying out innovative analyses in this area. The project is significant because it will move the field forward in providing a more meaningful, comprehensive, and nuanced understanding of to what degree, how, and why race, ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice are interrelated. Importantly, the intellectual merit of the project will be in expanding our current understanding of the meaning of race and ethnicity in crime and criminal justice, while also embedding knowledge of the observed linkages within the context of the broader positioning (racial/ethnic structure) of groups in society. Two types of activities geared are planned to achieve the specific objectives identified above. First, the PIs will hold a series of workshops and related meetings. The first of these will be held in conjunction with the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Toronto, Canada. The second will be held during June or July 2006 in Columbus, Ohio. During these meetings, agenda setting activities, including identifying gaps in research beyond those generated in previous workshops and discussing additional outlets for disseminating and setting the agenda items in the context of existing knowledge will be undertaken. The workshops and meetings will also serve as vehicles for identifying topics and funding sources for collaborative research projects to address major neglected issues in the study of race, ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice. Small groups will then work on developing the design and seeking funding for the projects with feedback from the larger study group. Our second mechanism for expanding understanding of the race/ethnicity-crime/criminal justice link is through holding a summer research and professional development institute for young scholars from underrepresented groups. At the institute, each participant will complete a research project with guided training and mentoring in a "safe" and resource enriched environment. At the culmination of the institute, there will be a mini-conference where participants present their work to the broader set of scholars involved in this project. This will provide an additional mechanism for institute participants to gain feedback and develop relationships (network) with other senior and junior scholars in the field. The summer institute will take place in Columbus, Ohio during the summer of 2006.Broader Impacts. This project is structured to have several specific broader impacts on scholarship and the academy. First, it will signal to the larger research community the types of research issues, theoretical frameworks, and methodological strategies that are required to improve knowledge in an important area. Second, it will draw on the expertise of scholars who are diverse along a number of dimensions (e.g., race and ethnicity, disciplinary training, and stage of career) to develop significant innovative research projects that take into account the complexity of race/ethnicity and embed analysis in the differential positioning of groups in society. Third, it will broaden participation in crime and justice research by fostering the careers of scholars from underrepresented groups. Together these will have a more general impact in bringing diverse and innovative perspectives to bear on research and curricula, thereby yielding new insights on the role of race and ethnicity in outcomes like crime and criminal justice decisions into the future.