Criminal and Procedural Justice

Question 1

When Minor infractions become a problem

teachers gave warnings to ‘misbehaving’ students, white and black students

1.black students more likely to be labeled as trouble makers than white students
2. black students more likely to receive second infraction even if they weren’t misbehaving
3. black students received harsher punishments
4. infractions had no large effect on how teachers viewed white students

what does this experiment demonstrate in terms of race?

Answer 1

how bias is rooted in stereotypes

Question 2

Police/ Law enforcement

Masculinity and decision to shoot black suspects (2012)

IV:
race of victim: black or white
insecure masculinity: low or high
DV:
decision to shoot

what was the result?

Answer 2

participants with insecure masculinity were more likely to shoot black suspect than whites

Question 3

An interrogation technique used in the US and Canada where a detective analyzes a person’s verbal and non-verbal behavior about whose guilty and whose innocent

Answer 3

REID technique

Question 4

What are some verbal behaviors