Stanford Psychologist MacArthur Genius On Racism | Business Insider It’s almost as though blackness is so associated with crime that you’re ready to pick out these crime objects out of the environment than if you’re exposed to a white face, she said. Her work has carried over to criminal justice. She found that death row defendants were twice as likely to receive a death sentence if they looked stereotypically black than if they did not. In light of her discoveries, Eberhardt is working with police forces to design interventions to improve policing and to help them build and maintain trust with the communities they serve, the MacArthur Foundation says.
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