Collaborative Proposal: Adolescent Social Development During Incarceration

合作提案：监禁期间青少年的社会发展

• 批准号: 1826773
• 负责人: Caitlin Cavanagh
• 金额: $ 4.47万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826773&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Adolescent; Social; Development

Juvenile incarceration removes young people from their homes, schools, and communities during a period of substantial social development. Incarceration not only isolates adolescents from typical sources of socialization (e.g., family, friends, mentors, teachers, coaches) and increases exposure to antisocial influences (e.g., fellow inmates), but also reduces adolescents' opportunities to engage in traditional social interactions. This research examines the effects of juvenile incarceration on adolescents' social development and social relationship quality. Further, the study will explore potential ripple effects that such disruptions to social functioning may have on adolescents' mental health and future offending. The information garnered from this study may inform changes to juvenile justice policies and juvenile incarceration practices to reduce negative effects of incarceration on social development.This project consists of a longitudinal study of approximately 300 adolescents (13-17 years) across a period of two years. This sample will consist of three distinct groups of adolescents: 1) incarcerated adolescents, 2) adjudicated adolescents sentenced to community probation, and 3) community adolescents with no prior arrests. Participants will be statistically matched across the three groups on variables associated with incarceration (e.g., age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, prior behavior) to allow for inferences to be made about group-level differences in social development, relationship quality, mental health symptoms, and offending behavior, controlling for pre-existing differences on matched constructs. Participants will complete 7 structured interviews and five weeks of daily diary assessments about their social competence, social relationships, mental health symptoms, and criminal offending behavior. Official records of subsequent offending will also be provided for all justice-involved participants. The proposed research is the first study of its kind to directly disentangle the potential effects of juvenile incarceration on adolescent social development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在重大社会发展时期，青少年监禁将年轻人从家中，学校和社区中撤离。监禁不仅使青少年从典型的社会化来源（例如家人，朋友，导师，老师，教练）中隔离，并增加了对反社会影响的接触（例如，同胞囚犯），还减少了青少年参与传统社交互动的机会。这项研究研究了青少年监禁对青少年社会发展和社会关系质量的影响。此外，这项研究将探讨这种对社会功能的破坏可能对青少年的心理健康和未来犯罪产生的潜在连锁反应。从这项研究中获得的信息可能会为少年司法政策和少年监禁做法提供变化，以减少监禁对社会发展的负面影响。该项目包括对两年的大约300名青少年（13-17岁）的纵向研究。该样本将由三个不同的青少年组组成：1）被监禁的青少年，2）被判决接受社区缓刑的审判青少年，以及3）没有事先逮捕的社区青少年。参与者将在与监禁相关的变量（例如年龄，种族，社会经济地位，性别，先前行为）相关的三组中统计匹配，以允许对社会级别差异，关系质量，心理健康症状和有问题的行为，有问题的构建差异的群体级别差异进行推断。参与者将完成7次结构化访谈和五周关于其社会能力，社会关系，心理健康症状和刑事犯罪行为的日记评估。随后的所有参与者还将提供随后犯罪的官方记录。拟议的研究是对此类研究的首次研究，直接剥夺了青少年监禁对青少年社会发展的潜在影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来审查标准的评估值得支持的。