A Comparative Study of Medical Examiner/Coroner Offices in the United States

美国法医/验尸官办公室的比较研究

基本信息

批准号：
10361049
负责人：
Terence D Keel
金额：
$ 5万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-02-08 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract Native, Black, and Latinx people are disproportionately killed during police encounters and these murders are rarely prosecuted. Much of the social justice-driven research on police violence has focused on legal and political interventions that govern law enforcement practices. This project takes a different approach by examining the science of the autopsy, the American medical examiner/coroner system, and the nation’s long legacy of policing and state-sanctioned violence against communities of color. The medical examiner/coroner system in the United States plays an integral, but often overlooked, role in determining whether police are held accountable for deaths that occur under their custody. However, medical examiner/coroner reports rarely establish police culpability even when evidence indicates otherwise. This project undertakes archival research informed by media and federal government data on nationwide death under police custody to recover and document the history of three medical examiner/coroner offices that have played pivotal roles during the periods of English settler colonialism, the westward expansion of American empire, and racial segregation following the Great Migration of Black communities to Northern cities. To this end, the project will request and analyze images, documents, microfilm, and other materials from the medical examiner office in Jamestown, Virginia, the country’s first medical examiner office founded during the era of colonial settlement. This project will also study the Los Angeles Medical Examiner Office founded after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) in the city that is the current incarceration center of the world. Finally, we will study the history of the Wayne County Medical Examiner in Detroit, Michigan which is the nation’s most racially segregated city now undergoing rapid gentrification. Through these efforts, the project seeks to produce a peer-reviewed book monograph, a series of articles for public audiences, and the development of policy recommendations for reforming the medical examiner/coroner system. This project intends to offer new insights about the history of the U.S. medical examiner system and the politics of autopsy science that will inform the work of public health officials, community activists, lawmakers, and academic scholars working on tracking mortality from legal intervention and creating social justice reforms within policing, law enforcement, and incarceration.

项目摘要/摘要当地人，黑人和拉丁人在警察遇到时被杀害不成比例这些谋杀案很少受到起诉。许多社会正义驱动的研究警察暴力的重点是管理法律的法律和政治干预措施执法惯例。该项目通过研究科学采取不同的方法尸检，美国医学检查员/死因裁判官系统和美国长期政策的遗产和国家批准的有色社区的暴力行为。这美国的体检医师/验尸官系统扮演不可或缺的一体被忽视的是，在确定警察是否对死亡负责的角色中在他们的监护下发生。但是，体检医师/验尸官报告很少建立警察罪名是罪名，即使有证据表明另有说明。该项目承担媒体和联邦政府有关国家死亡的数据的档案研究在警察拘留下，以恢复并记录三个医疗的历史在英语期间扮演关键角色的审查员/验尸官办公室定居者殖民主义，美国帝国的向西扩张和种族隔离在黑人社区向北部城市进行了巨大移民之后。为此，项目将要求和分析图像，文档，缩微胶卷和其他材料弗吉尼亚州詹姆斯敦的医学检查员办公室是该国的第一个体检医师办公室成立于殖民定居时代。该项目还将研究LOS Angeles医学检查员办公室成立于Guadalupe Hidalgo条约之后（1848年）在当前世界的继承中心的城市中。最后，我们将研究密歇根州底特律的韦恩县医学检查员的历史现在，最粗糙的城市正在经历快速的高档化。通过这些努力，该项目旨在制作经同行评审的书专着，这是一系列的文章公众观众以及制定改革政策建议体检医师/验尸官系统。该项目打算提供有关美国体检医师系统的历史和尸检科学的政治学告知公共卫生官员，社区活动家，立法者和学术的工作学者们致力于从法律干预并建立社会正义来追踪死亡率政策，执法和进化中的改革。