Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams

2 entries found for Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams

“Reflexive criminalization of Black women… heighten[s] the perception that they are threatening, foreclosing the possibility in police officers' minds that they are simply survivors of violence… Police responses… all too often result in further…violence against them”

“Implicit biases, stereotyping, and other cultural factors may… contribute to perceptions by decision makers that a Black girl has run afoul of institutional norms, and that punishment, rather than restorative or therapeutic responses, is warranted."