Lorie Fridell
Born
Lorie Ann Fridell
NationalityAmerican
EducationLinfield College
University of California, Irvine
Known forResearch on policing
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology
InstitutionsUniversity of South Florida
Police Executive Research Forum
ThesisDiversion Programs for Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Offenders: The Clients, the Referral Decision, and the Resumption of Prosecution (1987)

Lorie A. Fridell is an American criminologist known for her research on police, especially regarding racial profiling.[1] She is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF), where she has taught since 2005. She was previously the research director at the Police Executive Research Forum for six years (1999-2005). She is the co-editor-in-chief of Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, along with her USF colleague Wesley Jennings.[2]

Education

Fridell was educated at Linfield College (B.A. in psychology, 1980) and the University of California, Irvine (M.A. and Ph.D. in social ecology in 1983 and 1987, respectively).[2]

Work

Fridell developed the "Fair & Impartial Policing" training program to help police recognize and reduce their own implicit biases. The program aims to convince police officers that policing practices influenced by such biases are counterproductive and unjust.[1][3][4] She has produced curriculums about these programs with funding from the United States Department of Justice, and has distributed them to police officers and to their first-line supervisors.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Kaste, Martin (6 April 2015). "Police Officers Debate Effectiveness Of Anti-Bias Training". NPR. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Lorie Fridell Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Zapotosky, Matt (30 March 2016). "Can police police their biases? Training is underway. How would you do?". The Washington Post Magazine. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Carey, Benedict (12 July 2016). "Police Try to Lower Racial Bias, but Under Pressure, It Isn't So Easy". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "People". Fair & Impartial Policing. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
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