Prejudice & Personality 3 Flashcards
Define culture
Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
What are the characteristics of culture?
- Learned - passes from generation to generation
- Range of acceptable behaviors
- Subject to change
- Can’t remain in isolation
Define prejudice
A preconceived judgement or opinion
What are the two types of prejudices?
- Personal prejudice - members of another racial/ethnic group are seen as threats to one’s own personal interests
- Group prejudice - a person conforms to group norms because it appears that it is what is expected
What is intolerance based on?
- Ignorance - not knowing enough
- Indifference - more apathetic towards a specific group
- Limited perception - limited experience
What is a stereotype?
Generalization about a group that is positive or negative
What are the 3 ways stereotypes can be changed?
- Bookkeeping
- Conversion
- Subtyping
What is a hate crime?
A criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation
What are some arguments for hate crime?
- Victim may suffer more psychological trauma
- Victim may suffer more physical trauma
- Hate crimes may have a wider impact
- Hate crimes may spark retaliation/community unrest
What are the hate crime motivations?
- Race
- Religion
- Sexual orientation
- Gender identity
- Disability
- Gender
What did Wisconsin V. Mitchell state?
Upheld that enhanced sentencing for hate crimes
What is the first response to hate crime scenes?
- Secure scene
- Stabilize victim
- Safety of all
- Preserve, collect and document evidence
- Identify criminal evidence on the criminal
- Interpreter
- Preliminary Investigation
How to determine bias motivation?
- Perception
- Perpetrators comments
- Differences
- Similar incidents (patterns)
- Engaged in activities
- Incident coincided with a holiday
- Organized hate groups
- Other motive
What are some of the reasons why some victims will not come forward?
- Fear of re-victimization/retaliation
- Fear of privacy compromised
- LGBTQ being “outed”
- Fear of LE/justice system
- Aliens, fear of immigration status
- Humiliation/shame
- Lack of support system
- Cultural/Language barrier
True or False; at every police dept. you will work with 3-4 different generations.
True
True or False; the baby boomer generation is the highest generation in the workforce.
True
What is the second largest generation in the workforce?
Generation X
What are the 4 generations?
- Baby Boomers
- Gen X
- Gen Y (Millennials)
- Gen Z
What was the Stanford Experiment?
What was the Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes Experiment?
