The Trauma Lens of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities
The Trauma Lens of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities
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DOI：
10.1111/josi.12251
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Gray, Anthea A.
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作者：
Bryant-Davis, Thema;Adams, Tyonna;Gray, Anthea A.
通过包括心理学在内的多个社会科学学科的透镜研究了警察对少数种族和族裔的暴力行为。在心理学中，对创伤的研究有助于理解一些执法人员实施的不公正暴力的动态。这些侵略行为不仅是人际创伤的例子，而且也是种族主义创伤的例子，这是通过代际创伤、种族主义事件创伤和复杂创伤的透镜来审视的。有一段暴力侵害种族和族裔少数群体的历史，使警察暴力的创伤经历成为背景。此外，创伤的框架阐明了警察暴行作为种族主义事件创伤的原因和后果。最后，警察针对少数种族和族裔的暴力行为的幸存者往往受到多重创伤，造成累积效应。填补目前的文献空白，我们讨论了创伤理论应用于警察暴力的临床意义，以及不同的方式种族和族裔边缘化的人应对和抵制这些行为。注意到有必要关注少数民族妇女等目标人群的多重身份。最后，我们描述了进一步研究这种复杂和破坏性的现象的必要性。
Police violence against racial and ethnic minorities has been researched through the lens of multiple social science disciplines including psychology. Within psychology, the study of trauma lends itself to understanding the dynamics of unjustified violence perpetrated by some law enforcement agents. These acts of aggression are not only examples of interpersonal trauma but also the trauma of racism, which is examined through the lens of intergenerational trauma, racist-incident-based trauma, and complex trauma. There is a history of violence against racial and ethnic minorities that contextualizes the traumatic experience of police violence. Additionally, the framework of trauma illuminates the causes and consequences of police brutality as a racist-incident trauma. Finally, survivors of police violence targeting racial and ethnic minorities are often persons who have been exposed to multiple traumas resulting in a cumulative effect. Filling a current gap in the literature, we discuss the clinical implications of applying trauma theories to police violence, as well as diverse ways racially and ethnically marginalized persons have coped with and resisted these acts. There is attention given to the need to attend to the intersecting identities of persons who are targeted such as ethnic minority women. Finally, we describe the need for further study of this complex and devastating phenomenon.