From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence by Hlf Cooper, M. Thompson Fullilove

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-519
Author(s):  
Vanessa Vielka de Danzine
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Police Violence

scholarly journals Characterizing Perceived Police Violence: Implications for Public Health

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (7) ◽  
pp. 1109-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cooper ◽  
Lisa Moore ◽  
Sofia Gruskin ◽  
Nancy Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Police Violence

scholarly journals Teaching Social Determinants of Health as the World Burns Down: Strategies Learned From Teaching in a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 237337992110431
Author(s):  
Kiana D. Bess ◽  
Marcus Andrews ◽  
William D. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The World ◽  
Master Level ◽  
And Behavior

Social determinants of health (SDOH), or the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, and age, influence health behavior and health outcomes. Often, in health education and behavior literature, emphasis is placed on individual behavior. However, scholars are beginning to move more upstream and incorporate SDOH frameworks into public health research. Thus, teaching SDOH is necessary for the next generation of public health scholars. In the COVID-19 pandemic era, SDOH are more prominent than ever as we educate and advocate to increase health equity. We present four strategies on teaching SDOH to master-level candidates in a virtual “Zoom-fatigue” environment during high-profile world events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, racialized police violence, and a contested election.

Police Violence and Public Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan E. DeVylder ◽  
Deidre M. Anglin ◽  
Lisa Bowleg ◽  
Lisa Fedina ◽  
Bruce G. Link
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
True Solution ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

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, highlighting recent literature linking this exposure to mental health symptoms, physical health conditions, and premature mortality. The review demonstrates that police violence is common in the USA; is disproportionately directed toward Black, Latinx, and other marginalized communities; and exerts a significant and adverse effect on a broad range of health outcomes. The state-sponsored nature of police violence, its embedding within a historical and contemporary context of structural racism, and the unique circumstances of the exposure itself make it an especially salient and impactful form of violence exposure, both overlapping with and distinct from other forms of violence. We conclude by noting potential solutions that clinicaly psychology and allied fields may offer to alleviate the impact of police violence, while simultaneously recognizing that a true solution to this issue requires a drastic reformation or replacement of the criminal justice system, as well as addressing the broader context of structural and systemic racism in the USA. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Volume 18 is May 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Police Violence, Use of Force Policies, and Public Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osagie K. Obasogie ◽  
Zachary Newman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Police Violence

scholarly journals Notes on policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK

Race & Class ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Scarlet Harris ◽  
Remi Joseph-Salisbury ◽  
Patrick Williams ◽  
Lisa White
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Police Powers ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Rule Breaking ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Minority Ethnic

This commentary excerpts from the research report ‘A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic’, carried out by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and published by the Institute of Race Relations in September 2021. One of the only pieces of research based on the experiences of the policed and their testimonies, the report suggests that policing during the Covid-19 pandemic undermines public health measures whilst disproportionately targeting Black and Minority Ethnic communities in the UK. The authors raise concerns about the policing of the pandemic and show that racially minoritised communities have been most harshly affected – being more likely to be stopped by the police, threatened or subject to police violence and falsely accused of rule-breaking and wrong-doing. The report argues that lockdown conditions, new police powers, and histories of institutionally racist policing have combined to pose a threat to already over-policed communities and the most marginalised and vulnerable sections of society.

The wounds that do not heal: Black expendability and the traumatizing aftereffects of anti-Black police violence

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid R.G. Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Black Police

PurposeThe murders of Black people at the hands of police in 2020 have led to global protests that have called on public officials to defund or abolish the police. What has been drowned out in these conversations, however, is the traumatizing aftereffects of anti-Black police violence as a public health crisis. In this paper, I argue that the racial terrorism of anti-Black police violence is a deeply felt wound in Black communities that extends beyond the individuals who directly experience it and that this type of collective trauma must be understood as an urgent public health crisis.Design/methodology/approachUsing published studies and online commentaries on anti-Black police violence and its mental health impacts in Canada and the United States, this paper examines the mental health impacts of anti-Black police violence at both the individual and community levels.FindingsA public health response to the traumatizing aftereffects of anti-Black police violence and other forms of state violence must highlight important policy imperatives, such as policies of action focused on improving the public health system. It must also encompass a recognition that the public health crisis of anti-Black police violence is not solvable solely by public health agencies alone. Rather, strategic opportunities to address this crisis arise at every level of governmental interaction, including law enforcement, health care, employment, business, education and the media.Originality/valueWhile the impact of anti-Black police violence on the mental health of Black individuals has been emerging in the literature over the last several years, what has been less focused on and what I address in this paper is how the threat of that violence lingers in Black communities long after the protestors have packed up their megaphones, resulting in collective trauma in Black communities.

scholarly journals Editorial: Excessive Police Violence as a Public Health Issue

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah L. F. Cooper ◽  
Mindy Fullilove
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Police Violence
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