Prevalence, demographic variation and psychological correlates of exposure to police victimisation in four US cities.

ABSTRACT: Aims Victimisation by the police is purported to be widespread in cities in the USA, but there is limited data on police-public encounters from community samples. This is partly due to an absence of measures for assessing police violence exposure from the standpoint of civilians. As such, the demographic distribution and mental health correlates of police victimisation are poorly understood. The aims of this study were to present community-based prevalence estimates of positive policing and police victimisation based on assessment with two novel measures, and to test the hypotheses that (1) exposure to police victimisation would vary across demographic groups and (2) would be associated with depression and psychological distress.

Methods

The Survey of Police-Public Encounters study

SUBMITTER: DeVylder JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6998899 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature