Tag: Stereotype

How Class Bias Stereotypes Play a Role in Decisions to Arrest

How Class Bias Stereotypes Play a Role in Decisions to Arrest The role of class bias stereotypes in police decision-making has been studied extensively since the publication of Aaron Cicourel’s 1968 book, The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice. In it, he showed how police officers’ decisions to arrest were based on class bias stereotypes they […]

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