Police violence leads to lower birth weights, Harvard sociologist finds
Police violence leads to lower birth weights, Harvard sociologist finds
- December 10, 2019
- Kristin Turney, sociology, Nonprofit Quarterly, Dec. 10, 2019
In the Los Angeles Times, University of California, Irvine sociologist Kirsten Turney observes, “We often think about police violence as having these individual-level consequences. But this paper is really innovative because it shows that police violence has spillover effects…it can affect people even in utero.”
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