Adultification Bias Against Black Girls
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DEFINITION:
The perception of Black girls as older and less innocent than their white peers. Research shows that Black girls face this form of discrimination when they are as young as 5 years old. Adultification bias is a unique form of intersectional bias against Black girls — rooted in a combination of their sex, age, and race.
A FORM OF IMPLICIT BIAS:
Adultification bias reflects automatic assumptions about Black girls without any individuating contexts. It is a form of bias based on unconsciously rendered stereotypes. Operating as a bias, it can affect judicial findings of fact, adjudication, and disposition.
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