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Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Risk of Fatal Police Violence. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
High rates and racial inequities in U.S. fatal police violence are an urgent area of public health concern and policy attention. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have been described as experiencing low rates of fatal police violence, yet ...
Gabriel L Schwartz, Jaquelyn L Jahn
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Mapping definitions, measures and methodologies of assessing police violence in the health literature: a scoping review protocol [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Police violence is a growing public health issue in the USA. Emerging evidence suggests that negative police encounters are associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes.
Latesha K Harris   +3 more
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Who are the “police” in “police violence”? Fatal violence by U.S. law enforcement agencies across levels of government [PDF]

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology
Background Police violence is increasingly recognized as an urgent public health problem. Basic questions about police violence, however, remain unanswered, including which types of law enforcement agency are responsible for fatal police violence deaths.
Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Gabriel L. Schwartz
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Female sex workers and police violence during the Covid-19 health crisis in 2020–2021: results from the EPIC multi-country community-based research program in Argentina [PDF]

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Female sex workers (FSW) have been disproportionately impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. Data show increases of police violence toward key populations (KP), likely a consequence of their role in enforcing health government measures.
I. Aristegui   +12 more
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Gestational exposure to fatal police violence and pregnancy loss in US core based statistical areas, 2013–2015 [PDF]

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: Fatal police violence in the United States disproportionately affects Black, Native American, and Hispanic people, and for these groups it is a racially oppressive population-level stressor that we hypothesize increases the risk of pregnancy ...
Jaquelyn L. Jahn   +6 more
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Police response to domestic violence: Theoretical framework and foreign experiences [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2005
This paper is dedicated to recognizing police work and intervention in the cases of domestic violence. Keeping in mind the relationship between the offender and the victim in the cases of domestic violence, seriousness of the consequences, as well as the
Konstantinović-Vilić Slobodanka D.   +1 more
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Measuring serious violence: a comparison of self-reported and police-recorded outcomes in a UK birth cohort linked to local police data.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives • To compare self-reported and police-recorded serious violence using data from a longitudinal UK birth cohort linked to local (Avon and Somerset Constabulary) police records • To assess the risk of police-recorded serious violence ...
Rosie Cornish   +4 more
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Gender, masculinity and policing: An analysis of the implications of police masculinised culture on policing domestic violence in southern Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020
This study explores and compares how the masculinised policing culture of the Ghana and Nigeria Police influences their interventions in domestic violence (DV).
Abena Asefuaba Yalley   +1 more
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Differences in reporting of violence and deliberate self harm related injuries to health and police authorities, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2010
BACKGROUND: The aim of study was to assess differences in reporting of violence and deliberate self harm (DSH) related injuries to police and emergency department (ED) in an urban town of Pakistan. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Study setting was Rawalpindi
Umar Farooq   +5 more
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Matching study using health and police datasets for characterising interpersonal violence in the community of Khayelitsha, South Africa 2013–2015

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objectives The Cardiff Model of data sharing for violence prevention is premised on the idea that the majority of injury cases presenting at health facilities as a result of interpersonal violence will not be reported to the police. The aim of this study
Leslie London   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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