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Illness spillovers of lethal police violence

The Significance of Gendered Marginalization

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ID2148403
AuthorsAbigail Sewell (0000-0002-7146-3657, Emory University, corresponding author), J M Feldman (0000-0002-8316-1947, Department of Public Health, New York University, New York, USA), R Ray (0000-0003-1735-9194, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Keon L Gilbert (0000-0001-7830-327X, Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, St. Louis University, St. Louis, USA), Kevin Jefferson (0000-0001-9699-1352, Emory University), H Lee (0000-0001-7376-5694, Department of Sociology, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, USA)
Year2021
Volume44
Issue7
Pages1089-1114
Publication date2021-05-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2020.1781913
OpenAlexW3044298517
LanguageEN
Citations received67
References cited62

Police violence is a pressing public health problem. To gauge the illness associations of police killings - the most severe form of police brutality, we compile a unique multilevel dataset that nests individual-level health data from the 2009-2013 New York City Community Health Survey (nij = 39,267) within neighbourhood-level data from 2003 to 2012 EpiQuery Vital Statistics (nj = 34). Using weighted hierarchical generalized linear models, we assess main and gendered associations between neighbourhood exposures to lethal policing and five illnesses. Holding all else constant, living in lethally surveilled areas is linked to a greater risk of high blood pressure and obesity for all neighbourhood residents and to a greater risk of obesity for women. Furthermore, illness risks are also gendered: Women face a 30-54 percent greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity compared to men. Lethal police brutality is an important neighbourhood risk factor for illness and, especially, for women's health

Criminology · Environmental health · Multilevel model · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Obesity · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Public health · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Gerontology

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