We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that W. E. B. Du Bois articulated as the need to dissolve slavery while simultaneously taking affirmative steps to rid its toxic consequences from the body politic. Because the legacies of slavery continue to produce disparities in public safety in the United States, both harming Black people and the institutions that could keep them safe, psychologists must take seriously questions of history and structure in addition to immediate situations. In this article, we consider the state of knowledge regarding psychological processes that contribute to discriminatory public safety. We also identify ways in which theorizing about discriminatory public safety can be improved by appreciating the historical and sociopolitical context in which policing occurs.

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迈向废除民主的心理科学：改进种族和公共安全理论和研究的见解

我们呼吁心理学家通过参与 WEB Du Bois 提出的“废除民主”框架来扩大他们对公平公正的公共安全的思考，该框架是消除奴隶制的必要性，同时采取积极措施消除其对政治体的有害后果。由于奴隶制的遗留问题继续在美国的公共安全方面产生差异，既伤害了黑人，也伤害了可以保护他们安全的机构，心理学家必须认真对待历史和结构问题，除了眼前的情况。在本文中，我们考虑了有关导致歧视性公共安全的心理过程的知识状态。