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Racial Stereotypes Influence Readers’ Memories of Crime Stories, Study Finds

Racial Stereotypes Influence Readers’ Memories of Crime Stories, Study FindsUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.If asked to imagine a criminal suspect, certain mental pictures come to mind for most people. According to a recent Penn State study concerning people’s memory of news photographs, images that accentuate African American facial features would be common, particularly if the crime is […]

June 16, 2004

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Study Examines Role of Stereotypes In Identifying Criminal Suspects

Study Examines Role of Stereotypes In Identifying Criminal Suspects UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.Research by a Penn State media studies expert reveals that memory of crime stories with the suspects’ pictures reflects racial stereotypes, and African Americans are especially likely to be mistakenly identified for perpetrators of violent crimes, an issue being discussed nationally by community and […]

January 29, 2003

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University of Nebraska, State Patrol Team Up

University of Nebraska, State Patrol Team Up To Study Racial ProfilingLINCOLN, Neb.The Nebraska State Patrol will partner with the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) to study racial profiling in traffic stops. The partnership was announced late last month, just before the patrol released preliminary results showing Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be […]

August 14, 2002

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From The Classroom to the Courtroom

From The Classroom to the CourtroomScholars assess race and class in the American criminal justice systemBy Ronald RoachAngela J. Davis wants to take scholarship from the classroom to the courtroom. A tenured law professor at the American University law school in Washington, Davis is seeking to spearhead a clinical research project that will work directly […]

January 16, 2002

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Fighting Heard Black Criminologists Seek Proper Context to Explain Racism’s Influence on Black Crime

Fighting Heard Black Criminologists Seek Proper Context to Explain Racism’s Influence on Black Crime.By Paul Ruffins“In my profession I’m considered a radical simply because I refuse to accept the idea that Black people are inherently criminal,” says Dr. Ramona Brockett, assistant professor of political science at Northern Kentucky University. “Many mainstream criminologists simply accept the […]

January 16, 2002

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Rafting Towards New Major’s

Rafting Towards New Major’s“Mom, I’ve decided to major in adventure sports.”   Not words every mother wants to hear. We’re talking mountain biking. Scuba diving. Spelunking. It’s news to test a parent’s open-mindedness. Exotic or highly specialized majors carry the baggage of the unfamiliar — negative assumptions come easy. But parents who fret about a child’s […]

April 12, 2000

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Private Party

Private PartyPlagued by sexually-lewd behavior and violence, one of the largest Black fraternity gatherings in the country is no longer a public event and some say that while it’s unfortunate, it may be the wave of the futurePhiladelphia — At first, it seemed that the 1999 Philadelphia Greek Picnic had all of the support that […]

September 15, 1999