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Police Violence and Public Health

open access: yesAnnual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2022
Despite their enormous potential impact on population health and health inequities, police violence and use of excessive force have only recently been addressed from a public health perspective. Moving to change this state of affairs, this article considers police violence in the USA within a social determinants and health disparities framework ...
Jordan E, DeVylder   +4 more
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Police Violence and Public Opinion After George Floyd: How the Black Lives Matter Movement and Endorsements Affect Support for Reforms

Political research quarterly, 2022
What factors shape public opinion about government solutions to address police violence? We address this question by conducting a survey in which respondents express their opinions about actual proposals to reform police practices.
Cheryl Boudreau   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests

American Political Science Review, 2021
Does social protest following the police killing of unarmed Black civilians have a widespread “opinion-mobilizing” effect against the police? Or, does the racialized nature of these events polarize mass opinion based on standing racial and political ...
Tyler T. Reny, Benjamin J. Newman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparing Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and Washington Post Fatal Police Shooting Data from 2015–2019: A Research Note

Criminal Justice Review, 2022
This research note empirically assessed similarities and differences among three open-source data sets from 2015-2019. Fatal police shooting incidents were compared across Washington Post, Mapping Police Violence, and Fatal Encounters data over a five ...
Benjamin P. Comer, J. Ingram
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Criminology Explains Police Violence

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2020
In his new book, Criminology Explains Police Violence, Stinson provides a comprehensive – yet concise – connection between the worlds of criminological theory and police misconduct.1 In a novel con...
Christopher M. Donner
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Mozambique: Police Violence

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series, 2023
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The politics of police violence: Political competition and police killings in Brazil

Journal of Urban Affairs, 2022
What affects police killings of denizens in the cities of developing democracies? Brazil is one of the countries with the most casualties from police lethality, yet deaths from police interventions vary greatly across its cities, as well as over time ...
Hernán Flom
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policing Gun Violence

2023
Abstract This book makes the case that increasing the effectiveness of the police in gun-violence prevention is both possible and essential. It is essential because in many cities, gun violence is the most pressing crime problem, making cities less liveable and negatively affecting economic development.
Anthony A. Braga, Philip J. Cook
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