A review of cultural and ethnic bias in investigative decision-making: selected cases

When making decisions, police, like all people, fall prey to negative stereotypes. Police must regularly make decisions about threats, so the stakes are higher than the typical decision-making process. This review looked at the threat and violence risk assessment processes through a new lens, explor...

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Main Author: Minhas, Rashid (Author)
Contributors: Frumkin, Lara
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
Year: 2023, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 207-229
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Cultural bias
Decision-making
ethnic bias
prejudicial stereotypes
snap threat and violence risk assessment
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Summary:When making decisions, police, like all people, fall prey to negative stereotypes. Police must regularly make decisions about threats, so the stakes are higher than the typical decision-making process. This review looked at the threat and violence risk assessment processes through a new lens, exploring the relationship between (un)reasonable suspicion based on behaviors with an overreliance on perceived prejudicial stereotypes. The paper outlines seven cases exemplifying inaccurate assessment of threats based on two UK criminal justice policies, (i) stop and search; (ii) and the CONTEST strategy. The case analysis review suggests that assessments are based on unstructured judgments and profiling grounded in cultural, religious and racial stereotypes.
ISSN:1537-7946
DOI:10.1080/15377938.2023.2232316