Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community Policing Preparedness and the State

博士论文研究：社区警务准备与国家

• 批准号: 1728957
• 负责人: Catherine Lutz
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Brown 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: 2017-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1728957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Community; Policing

The research supported by this award investigates changing linkages between local communities and the nation state in the contemporary United States. As distributor of welfare, administrator of bureaucracy, provider of security, and in many other ways, the state is critical for local life. But the nature of that relationship is dynamic, shifting over time and place in ways that change our understanding of what a government is at all levels of scale. This project asks, What are the key new elements of that relationship now? And what are their local effects? Noting how central discussions of security have become in recent years, the researcher approaches these questions through the lens of local policing and the increased use of equipment once reserved for the military. What does this apparent blurring of state and community lines tell us about the local impact of the nation state today? The research will be carried out in the Washington/Baltimore area by Brown University doctoral student, Jessica Katzenstein, under the supervision of Dr. Catherine A. Lutz. She will focus on how this equipment is made available and why police departments choose to obtain it; how personnel are trained in its use; and how its availability affects their sense of responsibility for threat response and their relations with local citizens. To gather data, she will employ a range of anthropological research methods including: interviews, participant observation in trainings and ride-alongs, and spatial analysis of equipment movements. Findings from this project will provide important insight into what militarization signifies about the contradictions and shifts in state influence in a historical moment in which community police have more effective resources and yet more limited room to use those resources without public challenge, and where they are called upon to serve as homeland defense against a broadening array of threats. This information will help to build new social scientific understanding of new aspects of what the nation state now means for local communities.

该奖项支持的研究调查了改变当代社区与当代美国国家国家之间的联系。作为福利的分销商，官僚机构的管理员，安全提供者，以及许多其他方式，国家对于当地生活至关重要。但是这种关系的性质是动态的，随着时间和地点的转移，以改变我们对政府各个规模的理解的方式。这个项目问，现在这种关系的主要新元素是什么？他们的当地影响是什么？研究人员注意到近年来对安全性的中心讨论是如何通过当地警务的角度来解决这些问题的，并且曾经为军方保留的设备的使用增加。这种明显的国家和社区线的模糊告诉我们了当今国家国家的当地影响？这项研究将由布朗大学博士生杰西卡·卡岑斯坦（Jessica Katzenstein）在凯瑟琳·A·卢茨（Catherine A.她将专注于如何提供该设备以及为什么警察部门选择获取该设备； 如何对人员进行培训；以及其可用性如何影响他们对威胁反应的责任感以及与当地公民的关系。为了收集数据，她将采用一系列人类学研究方法，包括：访谈，培训和骑行中的参与者观察以及对设备运动的空间分析。该项目的发现将提供重要的见解，即军事化在一个历史时刻，在社区警察拥有更有效的资源和更有限的空间来利用这些资源的情况下，在没有公共挑战的情况下，以及他们被要求用作国土防御，以抵抗宽阔的威胁。这些信息将有助于建立对民族国家现在对当地社区意味着什么的新方面的新社会科学理解。