- Provides clear strategies and tools to guide agencies and police professionals in their efforts to produce fair and impartial policing
- Brings modern psychological research to bear on one of the most important issues facing law enforcement
- Presents science to demonstrate that traditional interventions to address bias in policing have been off target, even detrimental to the cause
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This Brief provides specific recommendations for police professionals to reduce the influence of implicit bias on police practice, which will improve both effectiveness (in a shift towards evidence-based, rather than bias-based) practices and police legitimacy.
The author is donating her proceeds from this book to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (nleomf.org). - About the authors
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Dr. Lorie Fridell is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. Prior to joining USF in August of 2005, she served for six years as the Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Fridell has over 25 years of experience conducting research on law enforcement. Her primary research areas are police use of force and violence against police. Dr. Fridell is a national expert on biased policing. She speaks nationally on this topic and provides consultation and training to law enforcement agencies. Publications on this topic include two books: Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response and By the Numbers: A Guide for Analyzing Race Data From Vehicle Stop (and the companion guide, Understanding Race Data From Vehicle Stops: A Stakeholder’s Guide.) A recent chapter is and “Racially Biased Policing: The Law Enforcement Response to the Implicit Black-Crime Association.” Dr. Fridell developed the science-based “Fair and Impartial Policing perspective.” With national experts on the psychology of bias and funding from the US Department of Justice, she has developed five Fair and Impartial Policing training programs for police personnel.
- Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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The Science of Implicit Bias and Implications for Policing
Pages 7-30
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A Comprehensive Program to Produce Fair and Impartial Policing
Pages 31-94
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The Way Ahead
Pages 95-102
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Producing Bias-Free Policing
- Book Subtitle
- A Science-Based Approach
- Authors
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- Lorie Fridell
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Translational Criminology
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-33175-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-33175-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-33173-7
- Series ISSN
- 2194-6442
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 117
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics