Improving outcomes for stigmatised groups via social cohesion

通过社会凝聚力改善受污名群体的结果

• 批准号: MR/Y019741/1
• 负责人: Martha Newson
• 金额: $ 75.76万
• 依托单位: University of Greenwich
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY019741%2F1
• 关键词: Improving; outcomes; stigmatised; groups; via

Recidivism is one of the greatest socio-economic burdens the UK currently faces. At an estimated total cost of £18.1 billion a year, prison re-entry places a substantial burden on the national economy. This exacerbates reoffending's associated societal costs, including deviance, unstable communities and displacement. There is a 48% chance that an offender will go on to re-offend within a 12-month period, worsening the current prison overcrowding crisis, which is associated with severe mental health issues and a spread in infectious diseases. Re-offending rates are currently stable in the UK, providing an ideal time to conduct research into reducing them and the burden they place on the economy and wider civil society.Powerful group identities lead people to enact extraordinary behaviours for their groups - from hardcore football fans travelling the globe for a game only to vandalise the local area, to gang members committing atrocities against their rivals. Can this problem be turned on its head and provide a solution: can this group passion be harnessed for the social good? At the same time, how can we foster positive social identities that are powerful enough to transcend values and expectations, helping stigmatised populations, such as prison leavers, receiving communities, or people with mental health issues? The proposed research hinges around the social cure; the power of groups and identities to connect us to positive values and behaviours. The research is ground-breaking in its truly national scale, encompassing men and women in over 70 British prisons, and leveraging collaborations across four continents. I will develop and apply the theoretical framework of 'identity fusion' - an intense, lasting form of social bonding - to these hard-to-reach populations. Across objectives, this will lead to interventions that are participant-focused, tailored to individual needs, and have lasting impact on individuals' social connectivity and the groups they are bonded to. The research tackles a portfolio of linked projects, ultimately championing social connections for people in prison and prison-leavers in the UK by investigating at reoffending data in 2026 and 2027 from my prison cohorts recruited in years 1-4 (Objective 1). As well as committing to societally acceptable behaviour, prison leavers also need welcoming communities; the renewal will support me to navigate receiving communities' attitudes to formerly incarcerated people and other stigmatised groups via a suite of experiments and surveys, including the use of comparative psychology to understand group cohesion via synchrony and ultimate, phylogenetic explanations of group barriers (Objective 2). Capitalising on the success of applying the social identity model in justice, this project re-applies the approach to improve the success of psychedelic-assisted therapies by conducting research in naturalised settings that promote lasting feelings of belonging, an area currently lacking in medical models (Objective 3). The research project crosses disciplines and methodologies, and has secured support from major non-academic partners to address these questions, including the Ministry of Justice, Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service and the Twinning Project - a nationwide intervention that pairs major football clubs with prisons and gives football-industry training and sustainable social identities to prisoners. Primarily informed by anthropology, psychology and criminology, the project will create novel tools using cross-cultural practices, which can be applied nationwide to affect positive, viable societal change. This research is further supported by a postdoctoral researcher with two years' experience with the sensitive data we work with, and a core team of carefully selected collaborators and mentors.

累犯是英国目前面临的最伟大的社会经济伯恩斯之一。监狱重新进入每年的181亿英镑的总成本为181亿英镑。这加剧了重新定局相关的社会成本，包括偏差，不稳定的社区和流离失所。罪犯有48％的机会在12个月的时间内继续犯罪，担心目前的监狱过度拥挤的危机与严重的心理健康问题和传染病的传播有关。重新定罪的率目前在英国稳定，提供了进行研究以减少它们的理想时间，并在经济和广泛的公民社会中燃烧它们的位置。启发的团体身份使人们能够为他们的群体实行非凡的行为 - 从顽固的足球迷（Hardcore Football Offorce）旅行全球范围内，以使一场比赛只能破坏当地的成员，从而使企业对抗Rivals to antrocities to antrocities tircities tircity to antrocities tirivals。这个问题是否可以打开并提供一个解决方案：可以为社会利益带来这个群体的激情吗？同时，我们如何培养积极的社会身份，这些社会身份足以超越价值观和期望，帮助污名化的人群，例如监狱离离开者，接待社区或患有心理健康问题的人？拟议的研究取决于社会治疗；群体和身份将我们与积极价值和行为联系起来的力量。这项研究在其真正的国家规模上开创性，涵盖了70多个英国监狱的男女，并在四个继续进行的合作中利用合作。我将开发并应用“身份融合”的理论框架（一种强烈的，持久的社会联系形式），以这些难以触及的人群。在整个目标中，这将导致参与的干预措施，适合个人需求，并对个人的社会连接性及其与他们联系在一起的群体产生持久影响。该研究解决了一系列链接的项目的组合，最终通过在2026年和2027年在我的监狱同伙中调查了1 - 4年招募的监狱同龄人（目标1），最终通过调查了英国监狱和监狱中的人们的社会联系。除了致力于社会可接受的行为外，囚犯还需要受欢迎的社区。续约将支持我通过一系列实验和调查来导航接收社区的与会者，并通过一系列实验和调查，包括使用比较心理学来通过同步和最终的群体障碍来理解群体凝聚力（目标2）。通过在正义中运用社会认同模型的成功来利用该项目，重新应用了改善迷幻辅助疗法成功的方法，通过在归化环境中进行研究来促进持久的归属感，这是一个目前缺乏医疗模型的领域（目标3）。该研究项目跨越了纪律和方法，并获得了主要非学术伙伴的支持，以解决这些问题，包括司法部，女王je下监狱和缓刑服务以及Twinning项目 - 一种全国范围的干预措施，将主要足球俱乐部与监狱与监狱配对，并为囚犯提供足球训练和可持续的社会认同。该项目主要由人类学，心理学和危机告知，将使用跨文化实践创建新颖的工具，可以在全国范围内应用这些工具，以影响积极，可行的社会变革。这项研究得到了一位博士后研究人员的支持，并在我们与之合作的敏感数据以及精心选择的合作者和导师的核心团队中拥有两年的经验。