Characterizing perceived police violence: Implications for public health
Characterizing perceived police violence: Implications for public health
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DOI：
10.2105/ajph.94.7.1109
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发表时间：
2004-07-01
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
Krieger, N
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作者：
Cooper, H;Moore, L;Krieger, N
尽管人们越来越多地认识到暴力对健康的影响，而且世界卫生组织最近将警察过度使用武力归类为一种暴力形式，但公共卫生调查人员却很少进行有关警察虐待行为的研究。利用 2000 年纽约市一个警察分局的一项警察禁毒研究的定性数据，我们调查了 40 名注射吸毒者和 25 名非吸毒者分局居民对警察虐待行为的看法和经历。参与者，特别是注射吸毒者和非吸毒男性，报告了警察的身体、心理和性暴力和忽视；他们经常将这种虐待与镇压相关策略和警察的偏见联系起来。我们建议公共卫生研究解决警察暴力的普遍性、性质和公共卫生影响。
Despite growing recognition of violence's health consequences and the World Health Organization's recent classification of police officers' excessive use of force as a form of violence, public health investigators have produced scant research characterizing police-perpetrated abuse.Using qualitative data from a study of a police drug crackdown in 2000 in 1 New York City police precinct, we explored 40 injection drug using and 25 non-drug using precinct residents' perceptions of and experiences with police-perpetrated abuse. Participants, particularly injection drug users and non-drug using men, reported police physical, psychological, and sexual violence and neglect; they often associated this abuse with crackdown-related tactics and perceived officer prejudice.We recommend that public health research address the prevalence, nature, and public health implications of police violence.