RCN: Reducing Criminal Behavior by Developing Human (and Social) Capital

RCN：通过发展人力（和社会）资本减少犯罪行为

• 批准号: 1156142
• 负责人: Philip Cook
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Reducing; Criminal; Behavior; Developing

No single discipline has sufficient breadth of perspective and tools to address the societal challenges posed by crime, violence, and lawlessness. Yet currently there is no adequate forum for creating a sustained inter-disciplinary community of researchers to address these issues and train new scholars to adopt this broader perspective. A second problem is that while some of the most cost-effective alternatives to incarceration may include efforts to address human capital deficits and change the social environment, research on those issues too often ignores crime-related outcomes. A third limitation is that research on crime tends to be provincial, and ignores potential insights from variation in policy or social conditions within or across other countries. This proposal is to establish a research coordination network (RCN) that would seek to create an international inter-disciplinary network of researchers to study these issues, and which would include: annual meetings to discuss new research; a training component via an interdisciplinary cohort of pre-doctoral and post-doctoral "NSF / NBER fellows" to help organize the meetings and actively participate; a data component through which fellows would identify new data sources to add to the those available on the NBER websites and other sources; and a dissemination component that leverages the outstanding capacities of the NBER website. The scientific benefits will flow from shared data and research methods, new research collaborations across disciplines and nations, the expanded consideration of crime-related outcomes in conjunction with the cost-benefit evaluation of social programs, and mentorship of junior researchers. New knowledge generated from this process will serve the public interest in reducing criminal behavior at lowest possible social cost.

没有任何纪律具有足够的视角和工具来应对犯罪，暴力和无法无天的社会挑战。然而，目前没有足够的论坛来创建一个持续的跨学科研究人员来解决这些问题，并培训新学者以采用这种更广泛的观点。第二个问题是，虽然某些最具成本效益的监禁替代品可能包括解决人力资本赤字和改变社会环境的努力，但对这些问题的研究常常忽略与犯罪相关的结果。第三个限制是，对犯罪的研究往往是省级的，而忽略了其他国家内或其他国家内政策或社会条件变化的潜在见解。 该建议是建立一个研究协调网络（RCN），该网络将寻求建立一个国际研究人员的研究人员来研究这些问题，其中包括：年度会议以讨论新研究；通过跨学科的培训组成部分，由博士前和博士后“ NSF / NBER研究员”组成，以帮助组织会议并积极参加；研究员将通过该数据组件确定新的数据源，以添加到NBER网站和其他来源上的可用数据源；以及利用NBER网站出色能力的传播组件。 科学的好处将来自共同的数据和研究方法，跨学科和国家的新研究合作，与犯罪相关结果的扩大考虑以及对社会计划的成本效益评估以及初级研究人员的指导。从这个过程产生的新知识将有助于公共利益以最低的社会成本减少犯罪行为。