ArticleSocial forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation2026
Perpetual encounters: reconceptualizing police contact and measuring its relationship to black women's mental health.
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- Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Black Women's Mental Health: Does Life Course Stage Matter?Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026Article
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Research and media discussion of police contact routinely conceptualize it as time-constrained interactions between officers and civilians. However, extant literature documents preparation for encounters and post-encounter advocacy, which each challenge restricted understandings of contact and, importantly, its relationship to mental health. We introduce "perpetual encounters" to both theoretically and empirically move closer to the temporally unbounded and enduring way that police contact is experienced in black women's everyday lives. Utilizing a novel, nationally representative dataset on their policing experiences, we explore how mental health is independently and conjointly associated with three dimensions of police contact: preparation, police stops, and advocacy against police violence. Beyond exemplifying how pervasive the police are in the day-to-day lives of marginalized communities, extending the scope of contact recognizes preparation as a significant threat to mental health and advocacy as a health-promoting activity. This study supports moving beyond discrete notions and measurement of police contact to process-oriented understandings and relational modeling.
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