Doctoral Dissertation Research: Policing Citizenship in the United States: Violence and Differential Access to Public Space

博士论文研究：美国的公民治安：暴力和公共空间的差别准入

• 批准号: 1301630
• 负责人: Melissa Wright
• 金额: $ 0.37万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1301630&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Policing; Citizenship

This doctoral dissertation research project examines how gender dynamics guide the state's public response to violence that occurs within the private space of the home. The spatial distinction of public and private space is critical to the conceptualization of intimate partner violence as well as to policing practices as a matter of public security and citizen protections. The project's objective is to study the connections between public space and citizenship, the state and its role in addressing the security needs of its citizens as well as the experiences of victims in this process. Three key questions guide this research: 1) How do gendered dynamics affect policing strategies regarding intimate partner violence? 2) How does the gendering of this policing affect the experience and practice of citizenship in relation to public space and security? 3) How does the gendering of policing strategies affect women's experience as citizens in particular places and times? While critical scholarship on terrorism and violence have recently been addressing the spatiality of policing, absent from this literature is an understanding of the gendered dimensions of policing at a more local scale. With a specific focus on the policing of intimate partner violence, this research will address this gap by providing new insights into the gendered and spatial dynamics of policing strategies that affect women's access to public space and citizenship rights. Further, this project will contribute to scholarly debates on policing and governance, private space and policing, and policing and exclusion. Lastly, this research advances understandings of how political processes affect women's position as citizens within the state by examining the current relationship between the state and victims, policing practices within the US and the impact of these processes on the lived experiences of victims. This research will be conducted via a qualitative study in central Pennsylvania. In addition to academic dissemination via geographic and feminist-based scholarly journals, results from this research will be disseminated in formats accessible to non-academic communities as they address socially-relevant community policing strategies. Project results will be presented in public symposia and results will be made available in reports to local and state community organizations as well as the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in such a way that they will be able to make on an impact on policy-making and policing practice regarding intimate partner violence. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career while providing timely research to address the issue of intimate partner violence.

该博士学位论文研究项目研究了性别动态如何指导该州对房屋私人空间内发生的暴力行为的公开反应。公共和私人空间的空间区别对于亲密伴侣暴力的概念以及对公共安全和公民保护的概念至关重要。该项目的目标是研究公共空间与公民身份，国家及其在满足其公民安全需求以及受害者在此过程中的经验方面的作用。三个关键问题指导这项研究：1）性别动态如何影响有关亲密伴侣暴力的警务策略？ 2）这种警务的性别如何影响与公共空间和安全有关的公民身份的经验和实践？ 3）警务策略的性别如何影响妇女作为特定地方和时代公民的经历？ 尽管有关恐怖主义和暴力行为的批判性奖学金最近一直在解决警务的空间问题，但这些文献缺乏对治安的性别维度的理解。 特别关注对亲密伴侣暴力的警务，这项研究将通过对影响妇女获得公共空间和公民权利的治安策略的性别和空间动态来解决这一差距。 此外，该项目将有助于有关警务和治理，私人空间和警务以及警务和排斥的学术辩论。最后，这项研究通过检查国家与受害者之间的当前关系，美国境内的治安做法以及这些过程对受害者的生活经历的影响，对政治过程如何影响妇女在州内的公民地位进行了理解。这项研究将通过宾夕法尼亚州中部的定性研究进行。 除了通过基于地理和女权主义的学术期刊通过学术传播，这项研究的结果还将以非学术社区访问的格式传播，因为它们可以解决与社会相关的社区警务策略。 项目结果将在公共座谈会上提出，并将在向地方和州社区组织以及国家反对家庭暴力联盟的报告中提供结果，以使他们能够影响政策制定和有关亲密伴侣暴力的警务实践。 作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立独立的研究职业，同时提供及时的研究以解决亲密伴侣暴力问题。