Inequality, crime, and health among African American males

• Other Authors: Bruce, Marino A. (Editor), Hawkins, Darnell Felix, 1946- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Research in race and ethnic relations ; v. 20.
• Subjects: African American prisoners > Mental health services.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781786350510; 9781787148895
• ISSN: 0195-7449 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S0195-7449201820
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 235 pages).

Imprisonment, homicide, non-lethal assault and other crime, chronic and infectious disease, substance abuse, suicide, and accidents all contribute to the much wider gap in the community-level sex ratios found among African Americans compared to those observed found among other ethnic and racial grou...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Introduction to volume 20
• A social ecological framework of inmate health: implications for blackwhite health disparities
• The relationship between health, cigarette smoking and criminal justice contact among African Americans
• The sexual health of African american and white men: does former incarceration status matter?
• "Maybe it was something wrong with me": on the psychiatric pathologization of black men
• Suicide among young African American males
• Life under the veil: homicide in black America Before, during, and after the drop in US crime
• Gendered racism is a key to explaining and addressing police-involved shootings of unarmed black men in America
• The matter of lives underneath black male skin: using theory and media to explore the case of "justifiable homicides" for black males
• Solidarity, double consciousness, and collective emotion work: understanding negative black health outcomes resulting from systemic police terror
• Framing physicality and public safety: a study of Michael Brown and Darren Wilson
• Index.