Doctoral Dissertation Research: Police Technology and Urban Governance

博士论文研究：警用科技与城市治理

• 批准号: 1725966
• 负责人: Jeff Maskovsky
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 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 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725966&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Police; Technology

This dissertation research project explores the role of technology in urban policing. Anthropology doctoral student, Elliott Liu, under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Maskovsky at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will study the arrangement of technical and governmental relationships through which knowledge about disorder, crime, space, place and other social characteristics are produced. Today technology not only informs police patrol and investigative activities, but also broader discussions of the mission, effectiveness, and legitimacy of police institutions and city governments. Yet not enough is known about the use of the spatial, demographic and statistical knowledge produced by police departments, the circulation and effects of this knowledge in other governing institutions, and how this has changed over time. The research will be undertaken in New York city. The researcher will combine archival and ethnographic methods in his investigation. He will undertake participant observation at public meetings and ride-alongs with officers in four precincts currently targeted for city intervention. He also will conduct interviews and focus groups with former police department officers and civilian employees about past technology use. Finally, he will evaluate these data against the backdrop of archival research tracing the development of police technologies from the automation of data processing in the 1950s to the analytics-driven policing model developing currently. Findings from this research will broaden insights into the role of technology in shaping police practices and public perception of police, safety, and urban governance. Conclusions will advance anthropological theory by extending work on actor-network theory and techno-politics to the study of urban governance and spatial management.

本论文研究项目探讨了技术在城市警务中的作用。人类学博士生 Elliott Liu 在纽约城市大学研究生中心 Jeff Maskovsky 博士的指导下，将研究技术和政府关系的安排，通过这些关系，有关无序、犯罪、空间、地点和其他社会特征的知识得以传播。产生的。如今，技术不仅为警察巡逻和调查活动提供信息，而且还为警察机构和市政府的使命、有效性和合法性进行更广泛的讨论。然而，人们对警察部门产生的空间、人口和统计知识的使用、这些知识在其他管理机构中的传播和影响，以及随着时间的推移如何变化，知之甚少。该研究将在纽约市进行。研究人员将在他的调查中结合档案和人种学方法。他将在公开会议上进行参与观察，并与目前进行城市干预的四个辖区的官员一起进行观察。他还将就过去的技术使用情况与前警察局官员和文职员工进行访谈和焦点小组讨论。最后，他将在档案研究的背景下评估这些数据，追踪警察技术的发展，从 20 世纪 50 年代的数据处理自动化到目前正在发展的分析驱动的警务模型。这项研究的结果将拓宽人们对技术在塑造警察实践以及公众对警察、安全和城市治理的看法方面的作用的认识。结论将通过将行动者网络理论和技术政治的工作扩展到城市治理和空间管理的研究来推进人类学理论。