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
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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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