Police violence among women in four U.S. cities

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue , 2018, Pages 150-156

  Fedina, Lisa ^a   Backes, Bethany L ^b   Jun, Hyun Jin ^a   Shah, Roma ^a   Nam, Boyoung ^a   Link, Bruce G ^c   DeVylder, Jordan E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender based violence; Intimate partner violence; Police violence; Sexual violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME VICTIM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NEGLECT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; POLICE VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE; SEXUAL MINORITY; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; UNITED STATES; CITY; ETHNIC GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CITIES; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85034615424     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.10.037     Document Type: Article

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