TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The interaction of race and gender as a significant driver of racial arrest disparities for African American men
JO  - Journal of urban health
A1  - Fielding-Miller, Rebecca
A1  - Cooper, Hannah L. F.
A1  - Caslin, Sharon
A1  - Raj, Anita
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The mass incarceration of African Americans is both a driver of racial health inequalities in the USA. Systemic social biases which associate African American men with criminality, violence, and as a particular threat to white women may partially explain their over-representation in the criminal justice system. We combined data from the Washington, DC Metro Police Department (MPD) and the American Community Survey to test whether neighborhood-level gender, race, and economic makeup were associated with elevated drug-related arrest disproportions for African American men. We found that African American men were significantly overrepresented in all drug-related arrests across the District, and that this arrest disproportion was significantly higher in neighborhoods that had a higher percentage of white female residents. The association between race and gender was somewhat attenuated, but not completely eliminated, when we introduced socio-economic variables to our model. Addressing the social determinants of criminal justice disparities must account for the intersection of race, gender, and economics, rather than considering race in isolation.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1099-3460
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-018-00325-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -