Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Subjects of Prevention: 21st Century Policing and the New Community Order

研究生米歇尔·斯图尔特（Michelle Stewart）将在约瑟夫·杜米特（Joseph Dumit）博士的指导下，对“社区警务”这一新的警务政策如何影响警察和公众关系以及相互认知进行人种学研究。社区警务要求警察和居民在预防犯罪方面进行合作。这种警务形式引入了持续的培训项目，以鼓励警察和居民在预防犯罪方面成为合作伙伴。研究人员将调查这种合作的后果，特别是它如何导致重新定义和改变对警察、社区成员、犯罪和犯罪活动的期望。本研究采用比较研究设计。它将在两个城市进行：加利福尼亚州的洛杉矶和加拿大的温哥华。研究人员将在警察培训和公民学院进行访谈和观察，按年龄对样本进行分层，以发现在引入社区警务后可能发展起来的警务和犯罪认知模式的变化。她还将观察社区警务行动，将预防帮派暴力作为重点案例。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于正在进行的关于治理结构变化的社会科学研究。这项研究还将有助于那些参与有关警务、预防犯罪和帮派暴力的宣传和改革项目的人的工作。此外，这项研究还支持研究生的教育。

Graduate student Michelle Stewart, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Dumit, will undertake ethnographic research on how "community policing," a new policing policy, affects police and public relationships and mutual perceptions. Community policing requires police and residents to collaborate on crime prevention. This form of policing introduces ongoing training programs to encourage police and residents to become collaborators in crime prevention. The researcher will investigate the consequences of this collaboration, particularly in how it may result in redefining and altering expectations of police officers, community members, crime, and criminal activity. The research has a comparative research design. It will carried out in two urban sites: Los Angeles, California, and Vancouver, Canada. The researcher will conduct interviews and observe at both police training and citizen's academies, stratifying the sample by age to detect changes in cognitive models of policing and crime that may have developed after the introduction of community policing. She also will observe community policing in action, using gang violence prevention as a focal case. The research is important because it will contribute to ongoing social science research on changing configurations of governance. The research also will contribute to the work of those involved in advocacy and reform projects surrounding policing, crime prevention, and gang violence. In addition, the research supports the education of a graduate student.