A Pragmatic Epidemiological Approach to Confronting the Genocidal Death Effect of Homicide and Suicide among Young Black Males in the United States

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ID21835009
AutoresSharon D Jones-Eversley (0000-0002-0681-2267, Towson University, autor correspondente), Johnny Rice (0000-0002-8275-4978, Coppin State University), Johnny Rice ll (Coppin State University), A Christson Adedoyin (Samford University), Lori James-Townes (Towson University)
Ano2020
Volume35
Fascículo1-2
Páginas47-67
Data de publicação2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Work in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1937-190X • E-ISSN: 1937-1918
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19371918.2020.1736705
PMID32156202
OpenAlexW3011366000
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas134

Genocide is a dehumanizing crime that threatens the welfare of any civilized society. Yet, before the annihilation of any targeted human group, the collective outcomes of the genocidal process (e.g., systemic desecrations) and genocidal death effect (e.g., years of mass deaths and death disparities) have often gone undetected, underestimated, or ignored by public health and human rights advocates. From1950–2010, the mass homicide-suicide killings engendering the premature deaths of Black males, ages15–24 years, corroborate that aspects of the genocidal process and genocidal death effect are happening in America. The mass killings of young Black males from these preventable homicide and suicide deaths are ethically alarming, and the determinants of death impacting their premature deaths command immediate primordial prevention and reinforced prevention efforts. An epidemiological genocide prevention matrix is explored as an innovative approach to address, prevent, and research premature deaths resulting from homicide and suicide, and genocidal death effect of young Black males. Undergirded by the Theory of Epidemiologic Transition, this article also examines the mass killings of young Black males through the genocidal and pragmatic lens. Death disparities, determinants of death, and genocidal death effect definitions are operationalized, and the Genocidal Death Effect Conceptual Framework is debuted in this article

Criminology · Genocide · Homicide · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Suicide prevention · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology