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Reverse Deterrence in Racial Profiling: Increased Transgressions by the Non-Profiled Group

Amy Hackney
Georgia Southern University

Jack Glaser
University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy


September 25, 2009

Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP09-003

Abstract:     
A controlled experiment tested the possibility that racial profiling – disproportionate scrutiny of minorities by sanctioned authorities – would have “reverse deterrent” effects on the illicit behavior of members of non-profiled groups (e.g., Whites). Research participants given a task involving extremely difficult anagrams were given the opportunity to cheat. White participants randomly assigned to a condition in which two Black confederates were obtrusively singled out for scrutiny by the study administrator cheated more than Whites in a White-profiling condition and a no-profiling control condition, and more than Black participants in all three conditions. Black participants cheated at comparable levels across the three experimental conditions. The effect of the profiling was therefore a net increase in cheating.

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Date posted: September 25, 2009 ; Last revised: October 02, 2009

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Hackney, Amy and Glaser, Jack, Reverse Deterrence in Racial Profiling: Increased Transgressions by the Non-Profiled Group (September 25, 2009). Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP09-003 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1478207


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Jack Glaser (Contact Author)
University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy ( email )
2607 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-7320
United States
Amy Hackney
Georgia Southern University ( email )
P.O. Box 8151
Statesboro, GA 30460-8151
United States
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