Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Using Psychological Insights about Stigmatized Groups to Inform Policymaking and Institutional Design

Using Psychological Insights about Stigmatized Groups to Inform Policymaking and Institutional Design

Key contacts: Dr. Catalina Carpan

Funding: ESRC

Start date: 01.10.2020

End date: 30.09.2021

Project overview

This project draws on Political Theory, Social Psychology and Critical Race Theory to highlight the ways in which current policymaking in the UK and the US should incorporate the lived experience of stigmatized racial groups. Using these lenses to examine practices such as racial profiling, the adultification of juvenile suspects and counter-radicalization initiatives, we are able to capture specific ways in which law enforcement agencies might contribute to reproducing structural disadvantage.