Spigner C
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
Int J Health Serv. 1998;28(2):349-72. doi: 10.2190/VV3M-EGYJ-0JX3-PUTT.
A public health approach to preventing interpersonal violence involving perpetrators and victims is laudable, but fraught with social and political pitfalls. The concept of "race" is little understood and is being exploited by both academics and the media, putting racial minorities--particularly blacks, who tend to be overrepresented in data on reported violence--at further risk. Though race is acknowledged as an ambiguous concept, some dangers nonetheless persist in linking racial minorities to dysfunctional and antisocial behavior within both cultural and biological constructs. Recommendations are given to help ameliorate the effects of such contextual linking, particularly given the present mood of U.S. political conservatism.
一种涉及犯罪者和受害者来预防人际暴力的公共卫生方法值得称赞，但却充满了社会和政治陷阱。“种族”概念鲜为人知，且正被学者和媒体利用，这使少数族裔——尤其是黑人，他们在报告的暴力数据中往往占比过高——面临更大风险。尽管种族被认为是一个模糊的概念，但在文化和生物学结构中将少数族裔与功能失调和反社会行为联系起来的一些危险仍然存在。文中给出了一些建议，以帮助减轻这种背景联系的影响，特别是考虑到美国当前的政治保守主义情绪。
