Mapping definitions and measures of police violence in health literature: a scoping review
Latesha K. Harris, Jamie L. Conklin, Valentina Marginean, Cheryl Woods Giscombé, Yamnia I. Cortés · 2026
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Latesha K. Harris and four colleagues present a 2026 scoping review of how health research defines and measures police violence. The topic matters for public health, especially for Black Americans, yet the field lacks a shared concept.
From 1,692 references, ninety-eight studies qualified. The reviewers found more than one hundred terms in use, grouped into twenty-two categories, and only two thirds of studies defined their term at all. Police killings were the commonest definition, and self-report the commonest measure. The authors recommend an explicit common definition, better measurement testing, and systematic data collection backed by a public federal database.
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| CREATOR | Latesha K. Harris, Jamie L. Conklin, Valentina Marginean, Cheryl Woods Giscombé, Yamnia I. Cortés |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 126979 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |