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IMPLICIT BIAS CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE 1 Faith Jones Sam Houston State University Criminal Justice and Social Diversity 4385 Dr. Heather Alaniz – Salas 02/16/24

Implicit bias is one of those taboo topics that people normally steer clear away from due to the uncomfortable feeling that follows or just from ignorance. Before taking this course, I had a clear understanding of what Implicit Bias was. However, after learning about the Harvard Implicit Bias Association test and taking the assessment I became aware of some bias I had of my own. It was easier and faster for me to associate the positive traits with black versus white. This was something I was not aware of and kind of lifted some of the rosy glasses' tint perspective. Becoming aware of my preconceived notions makes it so much easier to realize how many other people do not understand their own biases. This is why I feel like it is very imperative to consider unconscious bias within the criminal justice system. In the criminal justice system, anyone is bound at some point in their lives to interact with authorities. Whether it be jury duty or interactions with a police officer. The law is meant to be abided by everyone. With that being said, lawmakers should be required to test and see what their unconscious biases are. When we have people in office acting on their own biases it creates negative implications within society. During the pandemic nationwide we say outrage and the birth of a new movement called Black Lives Matter. With many victims like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Philando Castro to name a few. We first hand witnessed what happens when implicit bias is embedded within our justice systems. These are some of the racial biases we have witnessed but there are so many of them to go on about. “Reducing the Influence of Implicit Bias is vitally important to strengthening relationships between police and minority groups” (Correll, et al., 2007). Including more educated decision-makers can create more unity in many ways more than one. It could create more trust within our government from people because there is a clear

relationship between trust and bias. Trust is a major thing needed in decision-makers within our justice systems. “People, Packer says, are more inclined to trust members of a group with which they affiliate and less inclined to trust members of a group other than their own.” (Packer The relationship between trust and Bias, 2017)

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Works Cited Et Al, Correll. The Influence of Stereotypes on Decisions to Shoot | Request PDF, www.researchgate.net/publication/227733383_The_influence_of_stereotypes_on_decisions_to_s hoot. Accessed 03 Feb. 2024 . Packer, Dominic. “The Relationship between Trust and Bias.” Lehigh University, www2.lehigh.edu/news/the-relationship-between-trust-and-bias. Accessed 02 Feb. 2024.

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