Collaborative Research: State Variation in Mass Incarceration Reforms

合作研究：大规模监禁改革中的国家差异

• 批准号: 1655382
• 负责人: Heather Schoenfeld
• 金额: $ 24.23万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1655382&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; State; Variation; Mass

After years of increasing incarceration in the United States, recently many states have passed reforms aimed at reducing their prison populations. However, not all states have embraced reform of their incarceration rates and policies. This project will examine what has led some states but not others to initiate new policies that could reduce rates of imprisonment. Consequently, this project takes advantage of the shift in national context and the new variation in state level reforms to assess how states create or impede significant reforms of their incarceration policies.The project will examine legislative incarceration reform efforts in several states between 2000 and 2016. To do so, the project will use a paired case study comparison design. Three sets of state-pairs in different geographical regions will be matched on theoretically relevant variables known to correlate with penal policy and incarceration rates. The matched state-pairs design allows for variation in extent of reform. Data for the project will include archival and legislative documents, media content, and interviews. De-identified data from the project will be made publicly available. In this way, the project will help determine why some states have enacted incarceration reform, while others have been impeded in doing so. The project also will help identify effective strategies, resources, and processes with the most potential to better understand unnecessary incarceration within different state contexts.

经过多年在美国的监禁，最近许多州通过了旨在减少监狱人口的改革。但是，并非所有州都采用了其监禁率和政策的改革。该项目将研究导致某些州的原因，但没有其他国家启动可以降低监禁率的新政策。因此，该项目利用国家环境的转变以及州一级改革的新变化来评估国家如何创建或阻碍其监禁政策的重大改革。该项目将研究2000年至2016年之间几个州的立法监禁改革努力。为此，该项目将使用配对的案例研究比较设计。不同地理区域中的三组状态对将与已知与刑法政策和监禁率相关的理论相关变量匹配。匹配的状态对设计允许改革程度的变化。该项目的数据将包括档案和立法文件，媒体内容和访谈。从项目中取消识别的数据将公开可用。通过这种方式，该项目将有助于确定为什么有些州颁布了监禁改革，而另一些州则受到阻碍。该项目还将有助于确定有效的策略，资源和流程，最有可能更好地了解不同状态环境中不必要的监禁。