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dc.contributor.authorHameeduddin, Zaynaben
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Janiceen
dc.contributor.authorDecker, Michele Ren
dc.contributor.authorHolliday, Charvonne N.en
dc.contributor.authorShah, Romaen
dc.contributor.authorGoodmark, Leighen
dc.contributor.authorDantzler, Joyceen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:03:51Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:03:51Z-
dc.date.issued2019en
dc.identifier.citationVolume 96, Issue 5en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13037-
dc.description.abstractIntimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) are drivers of women’s morbidity and mortality in urban environments yet remain among the most underreported crimes in the USA. We conducted 26 in-depth interviews with women who experienced past-year IPV or SV, to explore structural and community influences on police contact in Baltimore, MD. Results indicate that gender-based and race-based inequities intersected at the structural and community levels to discourage women from police contact following IPV/SV. Structural influences on police reporting included police discriminatory police misconduct, perceived lack of concern for citizens, power disparities, fear of harm from police, and IPV/SV-related minimization and victim-blaming. Community social norms of police avoidance discouraged police contact, enforced by stringent sanctions. The intersectional lens contextualizes a unique paradox for Black women: the fear of unjust harm to their partners through an overzealous and racially motivated police response and the simultaneous sense of futility in a justice system that may not sufficiently prioritize IPV/SV. This study draws attention to structural race and gender inequities in the urban public safety environment that shape IPV/SV outcomes. Race-based inequity undermines women’s safety and access to justice and pits women’s safety against community priorities of averting police contact and disproportionate incarceration. A social determinants framework is valuable for understanding access to justice for IPV/SV. Enhancing access to justice for IPV/SV requires overcoming deeply entrenched racial discrimination in the justice sector, and historical minimization of violence against women.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Urban Healthen
dc.title“You Do Not Think of Me as a Human Being”: Race and Gender Inequities Intersect to Discourage Police Reporting of Violence against Womenen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.catalogid15664en
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.relation.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-019-00359-zen
dc.date.entered2019-11-12en
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