Priming unconscious racial stereotypes about adolescent offenders

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 483-504

  Graham, Sandra ^a   Lowery, Brian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Offenders; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFFENDER; POLICE; PUNISHMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECIDIVISM; SELF REPORT; STEREOTYPY; ADULT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; POLICE; PREJUDICE; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 13744262062     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAHU.0000046430.65485.1f     Document Type: Article

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