Rationale and objective In the United States, gun violence claims thousands of lives each year and is a pressing public health issue. To gain a better understanding of this …
AA Sewell - Sociological Forum, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research suggests police surveillance practices confer health risks to community members. This study examines whether the public health burden of excessive or …
R Ray, K Marsh, C Powelson - Sociological Forum, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent killings of blacks by police have renewed a national discussion about crime, racism, unjust treatment, and implicit bias. Outfitting police officers with body‐worn cameras (BWC) …
How are the racial attitudes of police officers distinct from those of the public? How might the officer's own race shape those attitudes? Recent high‐profile cases of contested uses of …
How typical is Ferguson? That is, to what extent is monetary punishment driven by fiscal crisis and deficit spending? Do communities that increasingly rely less on property taxes …
AR Roschelle - Sociological Forum, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Intimate partner and community violence are an unrelenting presence in the lives of homeless Latina and African American women and their children. Impoverished …
EL Ruhland, L Johnson, J Moore… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) is necessary for shifting knowledge and empowering community members to establish ownership over research. It was used in this …
Recently, a number of violent interracial interactions—between community members and public safety officers—has ignited a national debate about race, inequality, environmental …
What are the basic contours of a political sociology of violence at the urban margins? Drawing on past and current ethnographic research in a poor area of Buenos Aires, this …