Police shootings of unarmed black Americans may affect health of black infants
Police shootings of unarmed black Americans may affect health of black infants
- December 5, 2019
- Kristin Turney, sociology, People, Dec. 5, 2019
“We often think about police violence as having these individual-level consequences,” Kristin Turney, a sociologist at UC Irvine who was not involved in the study, told the Los Angeles Times. “But this paper is really innovative because it shows that police violence has spillover effects. … It can affect people even in utero.”
For the full story, please visit https://people.com/health/police-shootings-may-affect-health-of-black-infants/.
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