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.