CRM/LAW C106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stereotype, Wedding Cake, Informa
24 May 2016
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Guest speaker discussing contact with the police and policy implication. Focus: how stereotyping and bias can affect policing outcomes. Stereotyping- templates we use to categorize the world and quickly process information. Has been shown for places, genders, race and age; operates without conscious intention and outside of our awareness. Implicit- subconsciously held preferences that are hard to detect. Police decisions- there are multiple points in which stereotypes and biases can occur. Read report chapter 2 only of the reading http://www. nap. edu/read/18613/chapter/1. Sequence of events in the criminal justice system- flow chart: Cj system is not as easily readable as made in the chart/funnel-more complex. Move from left to the right there is a profound reduction in the number of cases and quantity of matters flowing through. Most of the cases are pushed out of the system- most victims of crime don t notify the authorities (higher harm= higher chance of notifying authorities)
