TCOLE BPOC Multiculturalism: Definitions, Attitudes,
and Bias
1. Attitude mental position based on knowledge, feelings, and experiences about
someone or something influencing them to behave in a certain way in
regard to that person or thing
2. functions of authoritar- ian personality
prej- udice:
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, TCOLE BPOC Multiculturalism: Definitions, Attitudes,
and Bias
3. Forms and tar- symbolizes one's aflliation with a more dominant group.
gets of
prejudice
• Racial
• Ethnic
• Gender
• National origin
• Political aflliation
• Authority figures
• Sexual orientation
• Ditterently abled
4. we assume • Religious
that impartial • Age
en- forcement • Economic/occupational
of the law
• Weight
• Physically challenged
• Individual personal preferences
-Requires that no person be treated unfairly, unjustly, or with bias or
prejudice. It also requires that no person be given more favorable
treatment by the law by being given better service, more considerate
treatment, or more lenient punishment than any other person would
receive for the same reason. The critical guideline is not favoring one
more than another in the same situation.
-Includes the more general ideas of impartial administration of justice
and impar- tial treatment of ottenders by the criminal justice system as
a whole. It is by no means limited to the peace oflcer telling the public,
"Don't do that - it's against the law," or "You must do this - the law
requires it."
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and Bias
1. Attitude mental position based on knowledge, feelings, and experiences about
someone or something influencing them to behave in a certain way in
regard to that person or thing
2. functions of authoritar- ian personality
prej- udice:
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8
, TCOLE BPOC Multiculturalism: Definitions, Attitudes,
and Bias
3. Forms and tar- symbolizes one's aflliation with a more dominant group.
gets of
prejudice
• Racial
• Ethnic
• Gender
• National origin
• Political aflliation
• Authority figures
• Sexual orientation
• Ditterently abled
4. we assume • Religious
that impartial • Age
en- forcement • Economic/occupational
of the law
• Weight
• Physically challenged
• Individual personal preferences
-Requires that no person be treated unfairly, unjustly, or with bias or
prejudice. It also requires that no person be given more favorable
treatment by the law by being given better service, more considerate
treatment, or more lenient punishment than any other person would
receive for the same reason. The critical guideline is not favoring one
more than another in the same situation.
-Includes the more general ideas of impartial administration of justice
and impar- tial treatment of ottenders by the criminal justice system as
a whole. It is by no means limited to the peace oflcer telling the public,
"Don't do that - it's against the law," or "You must do this - the law
requires it."
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