Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Program in Health Medicine and Society and Institute for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Health Justice collaborative, Lehigh University, 31 Williams Drive #280, PA, Bethlehem, USA.
Department of Public Health, State University of New York (SUNY) Old Westbury, Long Island, NY, USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2023 Oct;10(5):2104-2113. doi: 10.1007/s40615-022-01390-8. Epub 2022 Aug 17.
Police brutality towards racially minoritized populations is structural racism. Even though most of the research on the health impacts of police brutality centers the experiences of men, women are also harmed by this structural violence.
We identify factors associated with the anticipatory stress of police brutality among women and examine its relationship with depressed mood across ethno-racial categories.
Data came from the cross-sectional Survey of the Health of Urban Residents in the United States (N = 2796). Logistic regressions were used to identify factors associated with odds of always worrying about the possibility of becoming a victim of police brutality and to examine its association with depression among Latinas, Black, and White women.
Odds of always worrying about police brutality were greater among Black women and Latinas compared to White women. Household history of incarceration was associated with anticipation of police brutality among Black women and Latinas but not among White women. Black women and Latinas with constant anticipation of police brutality and history of incarceration of a household member during their childhood had elevated odds of depressed mood.
Although police brutality harms all women, the stressful anticipation of police brutality does not burden all women equally. Structural racism in communities of color continues to be associated with the anticipatory stress of police brutality and it harms the mental health of women of color. Developing policies to eliminate structural racism and for the allocation of resources to persons who are strongly impacted by these injustices is important.
针对少数族裔人群的警察暴力行为是结构性种族主义的表现。尽管大多数关于警察暴力行为对健康影响的研究都集中在男性的经历上，但女性也同样受到这种结构性暴力的伤害。
我们确定了与女性对警察暴力行为的预期性压力相关的因素，并检验了这种压力与不同族裔群体女性抑郁情绪之间的关系。
数据来自美国城市居民健康横断面调查（N=2796）。使用逻辑回归来确定与总是担心成为警察暴力行为受害者的可能性相关的因素，并检验其与拉丁裔、非裔和白人女性抑郁之间的关系。
与白人女性相比，非裔女性和拉丁裔女性总是担心警察暴力行为的可能性更大。家庭监禁史与非裔女性和拉丁裔女性对警察暴力行为的预期有关，但与白人女性无关。一直预期会受到警察暴力行为的非裔女性和拉丁裔女性，以及在童年时期家中有成员被监禁的女性，出现抑郁情绪的几率更高。
尽管警察暴力行为对所有女性都造成伤害，但对警察暴力行为的预期性压力并不会同样地给所有女性带来负担。有色人种社区的结构性种族主义仍然与对警察暴力行为的预期性压力有关，它会损害有色人种女性的心理健康。制定消除结构性种族主义的政策以及为受这些不公正待遇严重影响的人分配资源非常重要。
