Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 25, 2017, Pages 6521-6526

  Voigt, Rob ^a   Camp, Nicholas P ^a   Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar ^b   Hamilton, William L ^b   Hetey, Rebecca C ^a   Griffiths, Camilla M ^a   Jurgens, David ^b   Jurafsky, Dan ^a,b   Eberhardt, Jennifer L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAMERA; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUSTICE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; ANCESTRY GROUP; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRUST; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; POLICE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRUST; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 85021181361     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702413114     Document Type: Article

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