Assessing the racial aspects of police force using the implicit- and counter-bias perspectives

Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 44, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-48

  Fridell, Lorie ^a   Lim, Hyeyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit bias; Law enforcement; Police; Racial bias; Racial profiling; Use of force

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952361377     PISSN: 00472352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.12.001     Document Type: Article

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