Doctoral Dissertation Research: Residential Segregation and Policing Styles

住宅隔离和警务风格这个项目探讨了不同的地方，从而人们，来体验从根本上不同的警务风格的过程。它使用的情况下，一个警察局的项目，重新划定其地区边界的背景下，一个高度隔离的锈带城市。 与许多旨在更均匀地在管辖范围内分配城市服务的重划努力相反，这种重划旨在将不同的警务问题集中在新区内。 这样做，它创造了更多的种族同质区，并为警务做法的差异打开了大门。 本研究探讨了这一改革的动机和后果。 它的目的是扩大我们的理解，警察在社会控制和提供服务的项目中发挥的各种作用，通过确定整个城市的警务优先事项的关系和社会建设的性质。这项研究有可能通知警务和改善警察和policed.The研究人员之间的关系描述的动机和后果的重新划分，通过多方法设计，连接的结构性背景下的种族居住隔离的机构的优先事项，从而形成在地面警务。首先，研究人员将采访80个利益相关者参与或受重新划分，以确定网络和利益，结构化的重新划分过程。接下来，研究者通过对两个受影响最严重的地区进行为期一年的人种学观察，探讨了目前地区一级警察工作的社会组织。最后，研究人员通过对服务数据、逮捕和引用数据、犯罪数据和人口统计数据的纵向分析，描述了这种变化的预期和非预期后果。在研究住宅隔离和警务风格之间的关系，研究人员确定的动态警务，不仅重新登记和维护隔离的边界，但重建隔离的性质，积极创造不同类型的空间在城市中。因此，这项研究不仅有助于犯罪社会学、犯罪学和社区研究，而且有助于加强警察与被警察之间的关系。它有助于了解如何改变导致这些关系所特有的物质和象征性种族不平等的进程，并关注更广泛的历史和体制进程以及体制一级的任务。

Residential Segregation and Policing StylesThis project explores the processes by which different places, and thus people, come to experience fundamentally different styles of policing. It uses the case of a police department's project of redrawing its district boundaries in the context of a highly segregated Rust Belt city. In contrast to many redistricting efforts that aim to more evenly distribute urban service provision across a jurisdiction, this redistricting intended to concentrate distinct policing problems within the new districts. In so doing, it created more racially homogenous districts and opened the door for divergence in policing practices. This study examines the motivations for and consequences of this reform. It aims to expand our understanding of the varied roles that the police play in projects of social control and service provision by identifying the relational and socially constructed nature of policing priorities across the city. The research has the potential to inform policing and to improve relationships between police and the policed.The researcher describes the motivations for and consequences of the redistricting through a multi-method design that links the structural context of racial residential segregation to institutional priorities that in turn shape on-the-ground policing. First, the researcher will interview 80 stakeholders involved in or affected by the redistricting in order to identify the networks and interests that structured the redistricting process. Next, the researcher explores the current social organization of police work at the district-level through a year of ethnographic observation of two of the most affected districts. Finally, the researcher describes the intended and unintended consequences of the change through longitudinal analysis of calls for service data, arrest and citation data, crime data, and demographic data. In examining the relationship between residential segregation and policing styles, the researcher identifies the dynamics of policing that not only re-inscribe and maintain segregation boundaries, but reconstitute the nature of segregation by actively creating different kinds of spaces in the city. Thus, this research both contributes to sociology of crime, criminology and community studies but it also contributes to strengthening the relationship between police and the policed. It contributes to understanding how to change the processes that lead to the material and symbolic racial disparities that characterizes these relationships and attends to broader historical and institutional processes as well as mandates at the institutional level.