Mapping definitions, measures and methodologies of assessing police violence in the health literature: a scoping review protocol [PDF]
BMJ 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]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground 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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Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Risk of Fatal Police Violence. [PDF]
PLoS 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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Higher temperatures are associated with increased risk of police violence: A nationwide county-level study in the United States, 2013-2024. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAmbient temperature has been demonstrated to be associated with a variety of violent or conflict events. However, few studies have so far linked temperature to the risk of police violence, where the quantitative estimate of the temperature effect is ...
Jiacheng Zou, Kun Hou, Xia Xu, Zhen Wang
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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]
Harm 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.
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Gestational exposure to fatal police violence and pregnancy loss in US core based statistical areas, 2013–2015 [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 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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Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression [PDF]
Lancet, The, 2021 GBD 2019 Police Violence US Subnational Collaborators.
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Occurrence of fatal police violence during pregnancy and hazard of preterm birth in California [PDF]
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2021 Dana E Goin +2 more
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Police response to domestic violence: Theoretical framework and foreign experiences [PDF]
Temida, 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
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Social 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).
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