Broadening Participation And Perspectives On Crime And Justice Research

本项目建立在一个跨学科和多样化的学者和学科小组的成功合作的基础上，他们的工作旨在提高种族/民族、犯罪和刑事司法之间联系的研究质量。这个被称为种族民主、犯罪和司法网络（RDCJN）的组织在国家科学基金会的支持下建立了一个夏季研究所（SRI）和年度夏季研讨会。迄今为止，该组织已资助了44位年轻学者，并出版了几卷创新学术著作，包括该领域顶级专业期刊的书籍和特刊。目前的项目寻求在这些成功的基础上继续发展。为了推进扩大参与的科学，该项目将追求两个密切相关的目标：首先，它将扩大合作项目的范围，以提高我们对种族/民族、犯罪和刑事司法之间相互关系的理解。其次，它将促进STEM管道分支中年轻学者的研究和专业发展，包括来自代表性不足群体的研究生。pi将为未被充分代表的教师和高级研究生举办额外的sri，以提高他们在学院的研究成果和成功。这些研究所将提供一个建设性的环境，支持、培训和指导年轻和有抱负的教师完成论文/提案，以发表期刊或审查拨款，提供在大学生存的信息工具包，并减少年轻学者的孤立。从长远来看，这些活动将有助于从代表性不足的群体中培养出一批学者，他们的工作得到了明显的关注，他们的存在和成功鼓励了有色人种、女性等学生从事研究和教学事业。单独举办的夏季讲习班将使参加者能够在实地发展合作项目。这些研讨会将为来自不同学科、背景和职业阶段的学者提供发展、报告和改进正在进行的研究的方法。讲习班还将支持扩大SRI的参与活动，特别是通过将代表性不足的初级学者纳入一个充满活力的学者网络。各研究所和讲习班也将直接关注诸如住房、贷款方式和犯罪等当代问题；比较和国际背景下的种族、犯罪和司法；青年、同伴文化和刑事司法。更广泛的影响本项目有可能在多个领域产生更广泛的影响。首先，这项工作的中心前提是社会关系的复杂性，包括种族/民族，塑造了我们对犯罪和刑事司法的理解。参与者采用协作，多方法，多学科和比较研究。研究结果可能会提高我们对种族化与我们对公民身份和民主的理解之间的关系的理解，无论是在国内还是在世界各地。因此，调查结果可能对执法和社会服务提供者、城市规划者、执法和政策界以及一般公众感兴趣。其次，该项目利用不同学者的专业知识开展创新的犯罪和司法研究，并有意通过培养来自代表性不足群体的学者的职业生涯来扩大该领域的参与。讲习班和战略研究机构不仅将加强未来的研究，而且将加强犯罪学和刑事司法领域的培训和课程。

Intellectual Merit This project builds on the successful collaboration of an interdisciplinary and diverse group of scholars and disciplines, whose work seeks to improve the quality of research on the linkages among race/ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice. This group, known as the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN) established a Summer Research Institute (SRI) and annual summer workshops with prior NSF support. To date, the group has supported 44 young scholars and produced several volumes of innovative scholarship, including books and special issues of top-ranked specialty journals in the field. The current project seeks to build on these successes. To advance the science of broadening participation, the project will pursue two closely interrelated goals: First, it will expand the scope of collaborative projects that improve our understanding of the interrelationships among race/ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice. Second, it will advance the research and professional development of young scholars in this branch of the STEM pipeline, including graduate students from underrepresented groups. Achieving Project Goals The PIs will hold additional SRIs for underrepresented faculty and advanced graduate students to enhance their research achievements and success in the academy. The institutes will provide a constructive environment that supports, trains, and mentors young and aspiring faculty in the completion of papers/proposals for journal publication or grant review, offer a tool-kit of information for survival in the university, and reduce isolation of young scholars. In the long run, these activities will contribute to a critical mass of scholars from underrepresented groups whose work is visibly placed, and whose presence and success encourages students-of-color, women, etc. to pursue research and teaching careers. Summer workshops, held separately, will enable participants to develop collaborative projects in the field. These workshops will provide scholars from different disciplines, backgrounds, and career stages with the means to develop, report, and improve on on-going research. Workshops will also support the broadening participation activities of the SRI, especially by integrating underrepresented junior scholars into an energetic network of scholars. Institutes and workshops will also focus direct attention on contemporary issues such as Housing, Lending Patterns and Crime; Race, Crime and Justice in Comparative and International Contexts; and Youth, Peer Culture, and Criminal Justice.Broader ImpactsThis project has the potential for broader impact in multiple areas. First, the central premise of this work is that the complexity of social relations, including race/ethnicity, shapes our understanding of crime and criminal justice. Participants employ collaborative, multi-method, multi-disciplinary and comparative studies. Findings may improve our understanding of how racialization relates to our understanding of citizenship and democracy, nationally and around the world. Thus, findings may be of interests to the law enforcement and social service providers, urban planners, the law enforcement and policy communities, as well as the general public. Second, the project draws on the expertise of diverse scholars to carry out innovative crime and justice research and purposely seeks to broaden participation in the field by fostering the careers of scholars from underrepresented groups. The workshops and SRIs will enhance not only future research but also training and curricula in criminology and criminal justice fields.