The Illness Associations of Police Violence: Differential Relationships by Ethnoracial Composition

Sociological Forum

Volumn 32, Issue , 2017, Pages 975-997

  Sewell, Abigail A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

health; policing; race and ethnicity; segregation; social control; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037350464     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: 15737861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/socf.12361     Document Type: Article

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