Presented by April Fernandes, North Carolina State University.
In the era of “new policing,” the health consequences of increased surveillance, stops and arrests on Black individuals and communities has become an important consideration. Most of the existing research focuses on Black men due to their disproportionate level of contact with law enforcement, finding negative health impacts from various points of contact. However, Black women remain often invisible in such work, despite recent high profiles incidents of police violence (for notable exceptions, see Sewell et al. 2016; Ritchie 2017; Richie 2012; Jacobs 2017; Fedina 2018). This study focuses on the physical and mental effects of both direct and indirect contact with law enforcement on Black women using a data set from the Black Families Project, which only samples those who identify as Black or African American.
View the talk here: Watched, Stopped, & Handcuffed: Effects of Police Contact on the Health of Black Women