Objective: To summarize the ways in which researchers have quantified measures of
structural racism for the purposes of empirical, quantitative investigation of its associations …

Despite growing interest in the health-related consequences of racially discriminatory
institutional policies and practices, public health scholars have yet to reach a consensus on …

A growing literature documents deleterious consequences of incarceration for mental health.
Although salient, incarceration is only one form of criminal justice contact and, accordingly …

Importance Structural racism has resulted in long-standing disinvestment and dilapidated
environmental conditions in Black neighborhoods. Abandoned houses signal neglect and …

Background: Structural inequities have important implications for the health of marginalized
groups. Neighborhood-level redlining and lending bias represent state-sponsored systems …

Public health approaches to crime and injury prevention are increasingly focused on the
physical places and environments where violence is concentrated. In this study, our aim is to …

Efforts to promote equitable public policy with algorithms appear to be fundamentally
constrained by the “impossibility of fairness”(an incompatibility between mathematical …

Research Summary We conducted face‐to‐face interviews with 50 young Black men,
residents of high‐crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had …

Objectives. To describe associations between neighborhood racial and economic
segregation and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. For 13 US cities, we …