Doctoral Dissertation Research: Employment of Native Americans with Criminal Records

理解集中劣势的影响具有重要的理论和社会实践意义。有犯罪记录的失业美洲原住民居住在保留地，这是一种特别严重的集中不利情况。这个项目将调查这种情况对就业的影响。具体地说，它将描绘有犯罪记录的部落父亲在监禁后寻找工作的过程。它将描述这些人在没有正式就业的情况下如何养活自己和家人，以及在保留地与非保留地生活如何影响这些过程。这项研究的发现将对政策制定者、刑事司法官员、雇主和部落政府有用，他们努力支持这些男性寻求正式就业并试图重新融入社会。在这项研究中，来自尤罗克和霍帕谷保留地的30名部落受访者将接受采访，其中15人生活在保留地，15人不保留地。这项研究将解决有犯罪记录的部落父亲如何管理找工作的过程的问题。那些在入狱后寻找工作的男性面临着双重不利：招聘过程中的歧视和当地劳动力市场的疲软。他们还可能获得保留住所所特有的资源，这进一步削弱了劳动力依恋。该项目将与尤罗克部落法院合作，介绍有犯罪记录的部落父亲的求职战略，他们如何在没有正规就业的情况下养活自己和家人，以及靠保留地生活和非保留地生活如何影响这些过程。在这项新颖的调查中追求的研究问题和发现的结果将为全国保留地失业问题的研究提供方向。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Understanding the effects of concentrated disadvantage is of both theoretical and socially practical importance. Unemployed Native Americans with criminal records living on reservations constitutes a particularly acute situation of concentrated disadvantage. This project will investigate the effects of this condition on employment. Specifically, it will depict the job search process for tribal fathers with criminal records as they look for work post-incarceration. It will describe how these men provide for themselves and their families in the absence of formal employment and how living on vs. off-reservation can shape these processes. Findings from this study will be of use to policy makers, criminal justice officials, employers, and tribal governments who endeavor to support these men as they seek formal employment and attempt to reintegrate back into society. They will also be of use for the design of policy to ameliorate the effects of concentrated disadvantage in general.For this study, 30 tribal respondents from the Yurok and Hoopa Valley reservations, 15 living on reservation and 15 off reservation, will be interviewed. The research will address the question of how tribal fathers with criminal records manage the process of finding work. Those men who look for work post-incarceration face the double disadvantage of discrimination in the hiring process and a slack local labor market. They may also have access to resources unique to reservation residence that further weaken labor force attachment. In collaboration with the Yurok Tribal Court, this project will provide an account of the job search strategies of tribal fathers with criminal records, how they provide for themselves and their families in the absence of formal employment, and how living on vs. living off-reservation can shape these processes. The research questions pursued and the findings uncovered in this novel investigation will provide direction for the study of unemployment on reservations across the country.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.