在洛杉矶县的监狱中自然化非自然死亡
Nicholas Shapiro1, Terence Keel2
1Carceral Ecologies, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Medical anthropology quarterly
|October 19, 2023
概括
洛杉矶县监狱的死亡调查经常将黑人和拉丁裔囚犯的死亡归类为自然或不确定的死亡. 这项研究揭示了这些分类如何将员工的责任感降到最低,并掩盖了监狱疏忽的影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
- 医学伦理 医学伦理
背景情况:
- 监狱中的死亡调查对问责制至关重要.
- 监狱内的死亡率的种族差异需要进行彻底的检查.
- 以前的研究表明,癌症系统中的系统性问题影响了健康结果.
研究的目的:
- 分析洛杉矶县监狱的死亡调查如何不成比例地将黑人和拉丁裔被监禁人口中的死亡归化为自然.
- 调查验尸官的分类在尽量减少工作人员有罪的作用.
- 了解如何应用生物医学知识来掩盖癌症状况的影响.
主要方法:
- 对58次尸检,验尸官调查员叙述和2009-2018年毒理学报告的定量和定性分析.
- 对死亡确定分类的评估 (自然,不确定的等). ) 的情况.
- 检查人口统计数据,重点关注种族差异.
主要成果:
- 验尸官的自然或不确定的死亡调查结果经常将监狱工作人员的责任性降到最低.
- 黑人监禁人员被不成比例地归类为自然死亡.
- 在未确定的死亡分类中,拉丁裔囚犯的比例不成比例.
- 超过75%的案件涉及在审判前发生的死亡.
结论:
- 洛杉矶县监狱的死亡调查实践有助于黑人和拉丁裔囚犯的死亡入籍.
- 生物医学分类是为了消除在大规模监禁中惩罚,忽视和虐待的削弱生命的影响.
- 调查结果强调了对死亡调查协议的批判性审查的必要性,以及它们在延续系统性不平等中的作用.
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