Institutional Contact and Family Violence in an Era of Mass Incarceration

摘要 美国儿童遭受暴力的比例高得令人震惊。超过八分之一的人 他们所经历的虐待得到当局的证实，至少四分之一的人 目睹了父母间的暴力虽然像社会服务提供者这样的正规机构， 儿童福利和执法机构旨在保护家庭，这些机构 与其说是家庭的保护者，不如说是监视、惩罚和家庭的代理人。 分离，特别是在弱势群体中。本研究的总体目标是 了解与正规机构的接触如何塑造家庭暴力经历， 他们对孩子的影响。它也将允许首席研究员塔塞利博士 麦凯，机会来建立测量专业知识，分析技能，和方法 对大规模监禁的影响进行有影响力的长期研究所需的工具 因为家庭暴力该项目包括五项研究，结合主要定性 对接触惩罚性暴力的青少年和家长进行访谈和移动的调查， 机构（如少年和刑事法律的制度）和对 调查和行政数据。它将生成（1）双向关系的估计 机构接触与儿童家庭暴力暴露之间的关系（目标1，K99阶段）;（2） 新的、经过验证的机构接触措施，反映客观的机构接触， 机构反应性的主观体验（目标2，K99阶段）;（3）定性 评估机构联系和机构反应如何为家庭暴力提供信息 受影响家庭成员之间的披露决定（目标3，R 00阶段）;（4） 机构接触事件和机构反应对求助行为影响 意向及服务使用情况（目标4，R 00阶段）;及（5） 机构接触活动和机构反应在塑造 儿童时期遭受家庭暴力与儿童时期参与暴力之间的关系 向成年过渡（目标5，R 00阶段）。该项目将在以下方面取得进展： 概念化，测量和分析方法，为新的研究奠定基础 机构接触是儿童健康和福祉的社会决定因素， 为最常见和最脆弱的人提供健全的公共政策和公共卫生干预措施， 暴力的影响形式：家庭暴力。

ABSTRACT American children are exposed to violence at a shockingly high rate. Over one in eight have had the maltreatment they experienced confirmed by the authorities, and at least one in four have witnessed inter-parental violence. Although formal institutions such as social service providers, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies are intended to protect families, these institutions may be seen less as family protectors than as agents of surveillance, punishment, and family separation—especially in vulnerable communities. The overall goal of this research is to understand how contact with formal institutions shapes family violence experiences and their consequences for children. It will also allow the principal investigator, Dr. Tasseli McKay, the opportunity to build the measurement expertise, analytic skills, and methodological tools needed to conduct impactful, long-term research on the implications of mass incarceration for family violence. The project consists of five studies, combining primary qualitative interviews and mobile surveys with youth and parents in contact with punitive institutions (such as juvenile and criminal legal systems) and secondary analysis of survey and administrative data. It will generate (1) Estimates of the bidirectional relationship between institutional contact and childhood family violence exposure (Aim 1, K99 phase); (2) New, validated measures of institutional contact that capture objective institutional contacts and subjective experiences of institutional responsiveness (Aim 2, K99 phase); (3) A qualitative assessment of how institutional contacts and institutional responsiveness inform family violence disclosure decisions among affected family members (Aim 3, R00 phase); (4) Estimates of the influence of institutional contact events and institutional responsiveness on help-seeking intentions and service utilization (Aim 4, R00 phase); and (5) A quantitative assessment of the respective roles of institutional contact events and institutional responsiveness in shaping the relationship between childhood exposure to family violence and involvement in violence during the transition to adulthood (Aim 5, R00 phase). The project will produce advances in conceptualization, measurement, and analytic methods that lay a foundation for new research on institutional contact as a social determinant of child health and well-being and help inform sound public policy and public health intervention for the most common and impactful forms of violence: those within the family.