REU Site: Studying Race and Policing in the Complex Social Interaction Lab

REU 网站：在复杂的社会互动实验室中研究种族和警务

• 批准号: 2149553
• 负责人: Dale Willits
• 金额: $ 43.31万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Studying; Race; Policing; REU; Site; Studying; Race; Policing

This project is funded by the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. This REU provides both scientific and societal benefits. In terms of science, this project engages the scientific method examining the role of race in how interactions between police officers and community members unfold. In terms of societal benefits, this research will help generate understanding of police interactions, with a specific focus of understanding why police interactions vary and how they can be improved. This program imparts the knowledge, skills, and abilities to engage in scientific research to REU participants, while demonstrating how such research can improve community prosperity and welfare by affecting positive change in police-community interactions. In addition, this project generates research that will increase the safety of community members and officers involved in police-community interactions. Lastly, this program supports education and diversity by recruiting students from diverse backgrounds who will be embedded into a collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment where they will develop research skills which improve their ability to make meaningful contributions to society.The Complex Social Interaction Lab REU trains undergraduate researchers, especially, but not limited to, those from underrepresented populations, on data-oriented social science approaches to the study of race and policing. The site emphasizes the recruitment, training, and participation in research of promising students to address three interrelated projects: race and police use of force, 2) race and de-police escalation tactics, and 3) race and procedurally just policing. The methodological approaches focus on coding video and audio data, basic to intermediate quantitative methods, and advanced applications in GIS, time-series analysis, data analytics, and data visualizations. Additionally, this project reinforces the importance of methodological rigor and analytical creativity in generating valid and reliable measures and interpreting those data by way of the objective coding of body worn camera footage, making use of such footage as a novel source of data for the study of policing. Students will have the opportunity to use these methods to generate innovative data and the opportunity to publish peer-reviewed research. The goals of this project are to 1) recruit promising students, 2) provide real world research opportunities that integrate theory, methods, and application, 3) increase knowledge regarding policing and the race, 4) develop professional skills, and 5) prepare students for graduate school and for other career opportunities. This site is supported by the Department of Defense ASSURE program in partnership with the NSF REU program.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.

该项目由社会，行为和经济科学局的本科生（REU）站点计划的研究经验资助。此REU既可以提供科学和社会利益。在科学方面，该项目与科学方法进行了研究，该方法研究了种族在警察与社区成员之间的互动中的作用。就社会利益而言，这项研究将有助于建立对警察互动的了解，并特别了解为什么警察互动变化以及如何改善它们。该计划赋予了参与REU参与者的科学研究的知识，技能和能力，同时证明了这样的研究如何通过影响警察社区互动的积极变化来改善社区繁荣和福利。此外，该项目还会产生研究，以提高参与警察社区互动的社区成员和官员的安全。最后，该计划通过招募来自不同背景的学生来支持教育和多样性，这些学生将嵌入一个协作和跨学科的研究环境中，在那里他们将发展研究技能，从而提高他们对社会做出有意义贡献的能力。复杂的社会互动实验室培训培训本科生的研究人员，尤其是从事培训的研究人员，但不限于在社会上进行竞争的研究和研究人员，该研究人员是对社会的研究，而研究人员则是研究人员，而科学的研究人员则是研究人员，并且是研究人员的研究，而研究人员则是对社会的研究，而研究人员却涉及研究人员，并且研究人员涉及研究人员，并且研究人员涉及研究人员，而研究人员则是研究人员，并且研究人员涉及研究人员，而研究人员则涉及研究人员，而研究人员却是研究人员，而研究人员则是研究人员的研究人员。该网站强调了有前途的学生的招募，培训和参与，以解决三个相互关联的项目：种族和警察使用武力，2）种族和脱机升级策略，以及3）种族和程序性的策略。方法学方法着重于编码视频和音频数据，基本到中间定量方法，以及GIS，时间序列分析，数据分析和数据可视化的高级应用程序。此外，该项目增强了方法论严格和分析创造力在产生有效和可靠的措施中的重要性，并通过客观地编码身体磨损的摄像机镜头来解释这些数据，从而将镜头作为研究的新数据来源，用于研究。学生将有机会使用这些方法来生成创新的数据，并有机会发布同行评审的研究。该项目的目标是1）招募有前途的学生，2）提供现实世界的研究机会，以整合理论，方法和应用，3）增加有关警务和种族的知识，4）发展专业技能，5）为学生准备研究生院和其他职业机会。该网站得到与NSF REU计划合作的国防部Assure计划的支持。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优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来支持的。