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I need 4 scholarly journal based articles on racial bias and criminals.

More or less on criminals judged based on race.

Here’s one :

http://mimas.calstatela.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.mimas.calstatela.edu/login.as px?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2017-25165-001&site=ehost-live

Introduction:

  1. Opening statement/Paragraph: statistic or definition related to topic
  2. Research Question: What are the effects of race (White, African Americans) and attractiveness on perception in terms of severity level of crime, accuracy of conviction, and how dangerous people perceive criminal profiles.
  3. 1-2 paragraphs per article explaining how it relates to topic.
  4. Synthesis of Research question and previous research

Example: This past research relates ...

Also discuss limitations.

  1. Hypotheses:
  2. We hypothesize that White/black attractive will score lower on severity, dangerous, and accuracy of conviction
  3. We hypothesized that Unattractive white/black will score higher on severity, dangerous, and accuracy of conviction.
  4. We hypothesized that Both white attractive and unattractive will score lower than both black attractive and unattractive.

IV1: White and African Americans

IV2: attractiveness : We will Measure attractiveness by getting a group of 40 to rate photographs on a scale 1-10.

We asked XX to determine their level of attractiveness.

Average score of 8 is good

Lower than 4 is bad

DV: Severity, Danger, Accuracy

  • We are measuring how dangerous they are. How accurate the conviction was and the severity of the crime. Measuring severity of crime and how successful they are as a criminal. We want higher score for ugly criminals and lower for attractiveness.

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Research proposal introduction (Psychology)
Racial biases in prosecution of criminals
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Introduction
Racial biases have had a huge toll on persons facing criminal charges not only in the United
States but in many nations across the world. In the American context of the judicial system, some
researchers have theorized that the prosecution decision making of a judge may be influenced in
the presence of a Latino or a black. Also, judicial profiling also affects the prosecution of
criminals against the backdrop of their attractiveness.
Research questions
1. What are the effects of race and attractiveness on perception in terms of the severity level
of crime, the accuracy of conviction, and how dangerous people perceive criminal
profiles?
2. How does an individual’s attractiveness influence their criminal judgment and
prosecution?
Article 1
Minorities are likely to be disproportionately imprisoned by racial bases in the United States.
Racial disparities have been documented to be harbored by prosecutors unconsciously.
According to Robertson & Baughman (2015), there are unconscious biases that come at play
especially when prosecutors practice broad discretion, this may happen when choosing suspects
charges and when bargaining plea. Robertson & Baughman, propose a change in policies that
judges and prosecutors should be blinded on the racial orientation of suspects and defendants
whenever possible so that unconscious racial biases can somewhat be eliminated.
The researchers wanted to find out if the mention of a su...

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