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Racial bias in criminal news occurs when a journalist's racial biases affect their reporting. Racial biases are a form of implicit bias , which refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. [ 1 ]
The cross-race effect (sometimes called cross-race bias, other-race bias, own-race bias or other-race effect) is the tendency to more easily recognize faces that belong to one's own racial group, or racial groups that one has been in contact with.
A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies found amygdala activity correlated to increased scores on implicit measures of racial bias. It was also argued amygdala activity in response to racial stimuli represents increased threat perception rather than the traditional theory of the amygdala activity represented ingroup-outgroup processing. [259]
But the two largest racial bias cases brought by the federal governmentin California in the last decade alleged widespread abuse of hundreds of Black employees at warehouses in the Inland Empire ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether it should be more difficult for workers from "majority backgrounds," such as white or heterosexual people, to prove workplace ...
An anti-racism group is planning to send volunteers into Cumberland County courtrooms to take notes and keep an eye out for racial bias and other kinds of discrimination against defendants.
Racial bias exists in the medical field affecting the way patients are treated and the way they are diagnosed. There are instances where patients’ words are not taken seriously, an example would be the recent case with Serena Williams. After the birth of her daughter via C-section, the tennis player began to feel pain and shortness of breath.
A California appellate court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield – finding it “legally invalid” – on the grounds of racial bias.