RAPID: Examining Community Corrections Agencies During COVID-19

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。新冠肺炎疫情给全美的社区惩教机构带来了严峻的挑战，由于社会、经济和行为风险因素的流行，社区惩教机构面临着感染传染病的高风险人群。这一快速项目将衡量和跟踪机构一级的反应，以预防、控制和应对新冠肺炎疫情。此外，该项目将研究社区惩教(惩教系统最大的分支)如何应对新冠肺炎大流行并平衡公共卫生和公共安全。因此，本研究将调查新冠肺炎疫情期间社区监管机构改变政策及程序的情况，同时检视新冠肺炎疫情对社区监管人员身心健康的影响。本研究将通过对社区监管人员及社区监管人员的调查及访谈，并基于组织变迁理论，纵向检视社区惩教机构在新冠肺炎疫情期间的适应情况。这些方法将使研究社区监督机构在新冠肺炎大流行期间改变其政策和程序的情况成为可能。该项目将产生数据和研究结果，提供有关机构在新冠肺炎大流行期间使用的战略的关键信息。研究结果将帮助学术和机构制定应对新冠肺炎疫情的决策，同时为制定计划，在未来的传染病事件中保护惩教人员和客户的健康和福祉提供信息。该奖项反映了国家惩教基金会的法定使命，并已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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The COVID-19 pandemic has created extreme challenges for community corrections agencies across the United States, a population at a high risk for infectious diseases due to a prevalence of social, economic, and behavioral risk factors. This RAPID project will measure and track agency-level responses to prevent, contain, and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Additionally, this project will examine how community corrections (the largest arm of the corrections system) respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and balance public health and public safety. Consequently, this study will investigate the circumstances under which community supervision agencies alter their policies and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic, while examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health of community supervision officers.Through surveys and interviews with community supervision administrators and officers, and based on a theory of organization change, this project will take a longitudinal approach to examine how community corrections agencies adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. These methods will enable a study of the circumstances under which community supervision agencies alter their policies and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project will produce data and research results that will provide key information on the strategies agencies use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings will aid scholarship and agency decision making in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while informing the development of plans to protect the health and well-being of correctional staff and clients in future infectious disease events.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.