Social and ecological infrastructure for recidivism reduction: New Haven, CT - March 2020

该奖项支持一个关于创新的社会和生态方法以重新进入囚犯和减少累犯率的应用研究会议。它的重点是在社会科学理论和环境可持续性方案、程序、政策和实践之间建立联系，这些方案、程序、政策和实践正在改善矫正结果和社区环境。这次会议将把研究人员和实践者聚集在一起，分享关于前沿囚犯再入服务的想法，为未来的研究和能力建设建立联系，并阐明这一新兴领域的理论、实践和可能性，该领域具有加强公共安全和司法系统的巨大潜力。总体而言，该活动将创造一个空间，在这里，长期研究人员分享该领域的状况，向新兴从业者和学者介绍当前研究中的关键问题，以及学者和从业者团体就推进社会科学理论的前沿制定战略。会议产生的研究合作、知识和培训将有助于改善提供教育、职业和治疗服务，以帮助囚犯重新进入监狱并减少再犯罪率。会议将通过向与会者介绍与减少累犯的社会和生态基础设施相关的多个学科的关键概念、方法、对象和研究地点，来推进一个新兴领域的理论。在与减少累犯率相关的“绿色”或“环境”政策、方案和实践研究的基础上，该活动将通过研究视角的交叉培养，确定知识生产的新领域。会议还将为从社会生态角度研究犯罪、减少累犯和公共安全的方法和理论创新奠定基础。为了促进科学理论，这次活动有意安排了以下会议类型：突出主题的综合全会；分享关键发现的研究报告；提高研究效率的培训；制定研究议程的重点小组；以及促进合作的网络。这些会议将帮助从业者改进数据收集或评估，向研究人员通报发展基于经验的理论的新实践，并使来自政府的参与者能够在规模和地点之间建立信息灵通的联系，以有效地减少累犯率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a conference about applied research on innovative social and ecological approaches to prisoner reentry and recidivism reduction. It focuses on making connections between social scientific theory and the environmental sustainability programs, procedures, policies and practices that are improving correctional outcomes and community environments. The conference will bring researchers and practitioners together to share ideas about leading-edge prisoner re-entry services, create connections for future research and capacity-building, and articulate the theories, practices, and possibilities of a nascent field that has tremendous potential to strengthen systems of public safety and justice. Overall, the event will create a space where long-standing researchers share the state of the field, emerging practitioners and scholars are introduced to key issues in current research, and groups of scholars and practitioners strategize about advancing frontiers of social scientific theory. Research collaborations, knowledge, and training that are generated as a result of the conference will contribute to improving the delivery of educational, vocational, and therapeutic services for prisoner re-entry and recidivism reduction. The conference will advance theory in an emerging field by introducing participants to key concepts, methods, objects, and sites of study across the multiple disciplines that relate to social and ecological infrastructure for recidivism reduction. Building on the research about "green" or "environmental" policies, programs, and practices related to recidivism reduction, the event will identify new areas for knowledge production through cross-fertilization of research perspectives. The conference will also lay the groundwork for methodological and theoretical innovations in the study of crime, recidivism reduction, and public safety from a social-ecological approach. In order to advance scientific theory, the event is intentionally structured with the following session types: integrative plenaries to highlight main themes; research presentations that share key findings; trainings for improving research effectiveness; focus groups that develop a research agenda; and networking to foster collaboration. These sessions will assist practitioners in improving data collection or evaluation, inform researchers about emerging practices for the development of empirically grounded theory, and enable participants from government to make well-informed connections across scales and places for effective recidivism reduction strategies.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.