Episode 50: Desmond Ang on the effects of police violence

Desmond Ang talks about how police violence affects local students' academic achievement and well-being.

"The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students" by Desmond Ang.

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol” by Jennifer A. Heissel, Patrick T. Sharkey, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Kathryn Grant, and Emma K. Adam.

• “The Acute Effect of Local Homicides on Children’s Cognitive Performance” by Patrick Sharkey.

• “High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Students’ Standardized Test Performance” by Patrick Sharkey, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Johanna Lacoe.

• “The Effect of Local Violence on Children’s Attention and Impulse Control” by Patrick T. Sharkey, Nicole Tirado Strayer, Andrew V. Papachristos, and C. Cybele Raver.

• Kerner Commission, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.

• “Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study” by Jacob Bor, Atheendar S. Venkataramani, David R. Williams, Alexander C. Tsai.

• “Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community” by Matthew Desmond, Andrew V. Papachristos, and David S. Kirk.

• “Police Shootings, Civic Unrest and Student Achievement: Evidence from Ferguson” by Seth Gershenson and Michael S. Hayes.

• “The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks” by Seth Gershenson and Erdal Tekin.

• “Police Brutality and Public Perceptions of Racial Discrimination: A Tale of Two Beatings” by Lee Sigelman, Susan Welch, Timothy Bledsoe, and Michael Combs.

• “Police Repression and Protest Behavior: Evidence from Student Protests in Chile” by Felipe González and Mounu Prem.

• "Do Police Brutality Stories Reduce 911 Calls? Reassessing an Important Criminological Finding" by Michael Zoorob.

• "Civic Responses to Police Violence" by Desmond Ang and John Tebes.