UT Honors Symposium to Analyze “The Science Of Implicit Bias” on Oct. 25

On Thursday, Oct. 25, Lorie Fridell, a faculty member in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, will discuss “The Science of Implicit Bias” as part of The University of Tampa’s honors symposium series. Fridell’s talk will begin at 6 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon and is free and open to the public.

A national expert on biased policing, Fridell will explain how the science of implicit bias might manifest in police professionals and what individual police officers and agencies can and should do to avoid bias.

Fridell has more than 20 years of experience in conducting research on law enforcement and speaks nationally on what she calls “racially biased policing,” providing consultation and command-level training to law enforcement agencies.

Author, co-author or editor of seven books, Fridell has published titles including Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response, By the Numbers: A Guide for Analyzing Race Data from Vehicle Stops and Understanding Race Data from Vehicles Stops: A Stakeholder’s Guide.

Fridell is the founder of the Fair and Impartial Policing Training Program, which brings the science of implicit bias to police agencies, and is a co-principal investigator at the National Institute of Justice, a multi-method project collecting data on law enforcement personnel and agencies at 100 sites around the United States.

For more information, contact co-directors of the Honors Program, Ryan Cragun, associate professor of sociology, at rcragun@ut.edu, or Kacy Tillman, associate professor of English, at ktillman@ut.edu.