Across the thin blue line
Police officers and racial bias in the decision to shoot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Correll (0000-0003-1142-459X, University of Chicago), B Park (0000-0003-3316-619X, University of Colorado Boulder), Charles M Judd (0000-0001-6035-5602, University of Colorado Boulder), Bernd Wittenbrink (0000-0002-0946-3517, University of Chicago), Melody S Sadler, Melody Sadler (0000-0002-1089-9078, University of Colorado Boulder), Tracie Keesee (University of Denver) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1006-1023 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.1006 |
| PMID | 17547485 |
| OpenAlex | W2099789522 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 226 |
| References cited | 27 |
Police officers were compared with community members in terms of the speed and accuracy with which they made simulated decisions to shoot (or not shoot) Black and White targets. Both samples exhibited robust racial bias in response speed. Officers outperformed community members on a number of measures, including overall speed and accuracy. Moreover, although community respondents set the decision criterion lower for Black targets than for White targets (indicating bias), police officers did not. The authors suggest that training may not affect the speed with which stereotype-incongruent targets are processed but that it does affect the ultimate decision (particularly the placement of the decision criterion). Findings from a study in which a college sample received training support this conclusion
Affect (linguistics) · Race (biology) · Racial bias · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Stereotype (UML) · White (mutation) · Applied Psychology · Communication · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 226 |
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| Citations per year | 11,89 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 203 |