Category: Bias

Bias affects people in so many different ways. Some of those ways include feeling unsafe, having missed opportunities in both employment and education, and physical problems down the road. First thing is first to figure out how discrimination and bias affects the life of others we must first understand what discrimination and Bias is and…

Capital punishment is a legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. Within the criminal justice system, Capital punishment has aroused controversy due to discrimination. Many death row cases involve those of color and people in poverty as the defendants. All that time, I never met a rich person sitting on death row…

In a lot of crime shows, especially the ones you watch non stop on netflix, The death penalty may seem like an unbiased, clean and quick process. In reality, it is administered unfairly, biased, takes many years to complete, and is slow and costly. You may think that only the absolute worst people receive the…

Introduction Devine and Colleagues (2012) successfully reduced individuals’ implicit race bias by developing a 12-week prejudice habit-breaking intervention. The intervention aimed to reduce the characteristics that underlie implicit race bias which regards negative, automatic, and unintentional prejudiced beliefs about race. This research is very important as unintentional prejudices towards Black people are prevalent among White…

Everywhere we go, all humans carry with them personal biases. Whether those biases be against a particular race, sexuality, or gender, or in favor of one or all of those things, they are still there. These biases come from where we were raised and the way we were raised. These environments range from family values…