TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Race, structural racism and racial disparities in firearm homicide victimisation
JO  - Injury prevention
A1  - Conrick, Kelsey M.
A1  - Adhia, Avanti
A1  - Ellyson, Alice
A1  - Haviland, Miriam Joan
A1  - Lyons, Vivian H.
A1  - Mills, Brianna
A1  - Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVES: To identify an approach in measuring the association between structural racism and racial disparities in firearm homicide victimisation focusing on racism, rather than race. <br><br>METHODS: We examined associations of six measures of structural racism (Black/white disparity ratios in poverty, education, labour force participation, rental housing, single-parent households and index crime arrests) with state-level Black-white disparities in US age-adjusted firearm homicide victimisation rates 2010-2019. We regressed firearm homicide victimisation disparities on four specifications of independent variables: (1) absolute measure only; (2) absolute measure and per cent Black; (3) absolute measure and Black-white disparity ratio and (4) absolute measure, per cent Black and disparity ratio. <br><br>RESULTS: For all six measures of structural racism the optimal specification included the absolute measure and Black-white disparity ratio and did not include per cent Black. Coefficients for the Black-white disparity were statistically significant, while per cent Black was not. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In the presence of structural racism measures, the inclusion of per cent Black did not contribute to the explanation of firearm homicide disparities in this study. <br><br>FINDINGS provide empiric evidence for the preferred use of structural racism measures instead of race.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip-2022-044788
ID  - ref1
ER  -