TERENCEKEEL
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR, & DIRECTOR OF THE BIOCRITICAL STUDIES LAB
CORONER REPORTS PROJECT
Death under the U.S. Medical Examiner-Coroner System
This project investigates the history and current practices of death investigation conducted by the United States medical examiner-coroner system. The work involves analyzing autopsies and coroner reports from individuals killed while in-police custody. It also entails a public-facing data science project done in partnership with Dignity and Power Now, Dr. Nick Shapiro’s (UCLA) Carceral Ecologies Lab, Dr. Lauren Brown's (SDSU) Linked Fate Data Collective , Professor of Law Aziza Ahmed (UC Irvine School of Law), and my own BioCritical Studies Lab.
This collaboration has produced several forthcoming reports and also serves as the basis for my single-authored book, Society after Nihilism: The Biomedical Erasure of Accountability at the end of American Life.
Reports
"Report: Los Angeles Jail Deaths 2009"
2023
"Natural Causes? 59 Autopsies Prove Otherwise"
2022
"Natural Causes Fact Sheet"
2022
Media
"Medical examiners impacted by relationships with police, study finds"
2022
Terence Keel on "Tavis Smiley" (8/5/22)
2022
"UCLA Researchers Say More Than Half of 'Natural' LA Jail Deaths Studied Show Evidence Of Physical Harm
2022
"Study of Inmate Autopsies Renews Call to Close LA County Sheriff’s Men’s Central Jail"
2022
"Study: Deaths of Black and Latino men in LA County jails misclassified"
2022
"Study: Deaths of Black and Latino Men in LA County Jails Misclassified"
2022
Collaborators
Helen Jones
Community Activist and Organizer | Robert Wood Johnson IRL Fellow
Jonah Walters PhD
BCS Lab Postdoctorate Fellow
Lauren Brown PhD, MPH
Gerontologist | San Diego State University
Maggie Woodruff
JD
Anthropology PhD Researcher | University of California, Irvine
Anna Robinson-Sweet
UCLA Doctoral Student | Abolitionist
Aziza Ahmed PhD
Professor of Law | Harvard School of Public Health
Carmen Johnson PhD
Founder of Helping Ourselves to Transform
Elizabeth Rossi
Director of Civil Rights Corp's Strategic Initiatives
Nicholas Shapiro PhD
Founder of Carceral Ecologies Lab | University of Oxford
Partners
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