Nationality American Spouse Ralph Richard Banks | Role Social Psychologist Name Jennifer Eberhardt Awards MacArthur Fellowship | |
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Occupation psychologist; professor Known for racial biases in criminal justice | ||
Alma mater University of Cincinnati | ||
Jennifer eberhardt policing racial bias part 1
Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt (born 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a social psychologist and associate professor at Stanford University and a 2014 MacArthur fellow. She studies the mechanisms, effects of racial biases in criminal justice. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Contents
- Jennifer eberhardt policing racial bias part 1
- Jennifer eberhardt policing racial bias part 2
- Education
- Improving race relations
- Personal life
- References
Jennifer eberhardt policing racial bias part 2
Education
Eberhardt received her B.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1987, an A.M. in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993.
Improving race relations
Dr. Eberhardt is an associate professor of social psychology at Stanford University. She studies and teaches about the ways people judge and profile others based on race and inequality in the context of crime. Some of this research has been criticized for showing evidence of publication bias.
Dr. Eberhardt received a MacArthur Genius Award in 2014 for her work on how stereotyped views of groups affect criminal sentencing. At the time of the grant, she was working with police departments on improving policing. Her work has looked at how perceived racial composition of prisons affects how people view the prisoners and what should happen in the prison and how just thinking about race and black defendants makes people more likely to think of a juvenile defendant as more similar to an adult in culpability. She has spoken on issues of implicit bias both to police departments and to law students.
Personal life
Eberhardt is married to Ralph Richard Banks, a law professor at Stanford University; they have three sons named Everett, Ebbie, and Harlan.