Race, law, and health Examination of ‘Stand Your Ground’ and defendant convictions in Florida》.pdf

Social Science Medicine 142 (2015) 194e201 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Social Science Medicine journal homepage: /l ocate/socscimed Race, law, and health: Examination of ‘Stand Your Ground’ and defendant convictions in Florida Nicole Ackermann a, Melody S. Goodman a, *, Keon Gilbert b, Cassandra Arroyo-Johnson a, Marcello Pagano c a Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, Campus Box 8100, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA b Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Salus Center, 3545 Lafayette Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA c Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Building II Room 449, Boston, MA 02115, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Previous analyses of Stand Your Ground (SYG) cases have been primarily descriptive. We examine the Received 9 April 2015 relationship between race of the victim and conviction of the defendant in SYG cases in Florida from Received in revised form 2005 to 2013. Using a regression analytic approach, we allow for simultaneous examination of multiple 7 August 2015 factors to better understand existing interrelationships. Data was obtained from the Tampa Bay Times SYG Accepted 10 August 2015 database (237 cases) which was supplemented with available online court documents and/or news re- Available online 13 August 2015