CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Police Misconduct, Highway Patrol, Racial Profiling
31 Jan 2016
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Lecture 8: police misconduct by prof. terry dalton (01/28/16) Driving while black: bias processes and racial disparity in police stops by. Patricia warren, donald tomaskovic-devey, william smith, matthew zingraff, and marcinda mason. Then, understand where the pattern comes from: she also suggests, the magnitude of racial disparity, however, varies across studies. Results suggest that the degree of racial disparity can vary dramatically across jurisdictions. There may be other mechanisms operating to produce racial disparity, mechanisms that are non-biased but still produce the appearance of racial disparity in stops. Other associated characteristics like ses, gender, age. Think black"s finding regarding demeanor and arrest for blacks . Driver"s race # stops last year by 1) state troopers and 2) local police. In driving while black: bias processes and racial disparity in police stops, Warren et al. find a: (b) large racial disparity in local police officer stops but a small racial disparity in highway patrol stops.
