"Policing and Protecting Black Lives in the 21st Century"

Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist investigating the deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people, with a particular focus on associations between race and crime. She has been affiliated with Stanford University since 1998, where she is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychology.Her talk, "Policing and Protecting Black Lives in the 21st Century," will close the Dissecting Inequality conference. To register, go to tinyurl.com/dissectinginequality.To see a full schedule of events, go to socialequity.duke.edu/events/dissecting-inequality-disparity-and-difference-21st-centuryThrough collaborations with experts in criminology, law, and anthropology, as well as studies that engage law enforcement and jurors, Eberhardt is revealing new insights about the extent to which race imagery and judgments suffuse our culture and society.She also has examined implicit bias among law enforcement, showing that, for example, police officers are more likely to mistakenly identify African-American faces as criminal than white faces; in addition, officers are more likely to judge faces that are the most stereotypically black as the most likely to be criminal.