Why Police Kill Black Males with Impunity: Applying Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) to Address the Determinants of Policing Behaviors and “Justifiable” Homicides in the USA

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 122-140

  Gilbert, Keon L ^a   Ray, Rashawn ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

BlackLivesMatter; Black men s health; Critical race theory; Health inequalities; Intersectionality; Police brutality; Public Health Critical Race Praxis

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; POLICE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84949547742     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-015-0005-x     Document Type: Article

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