Educating college students for loss prevention jobs: understanding stereotypes and their role in surveillance and punishment decisions regarding juvenile shoplifters

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-05-11 DOI:10.1080/13636820.2022.2075435

Lauren R. Shapiro

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article was to improve the post-secondary vocational education curriculum for private security students by focusing on a particular applied skill – detection of juvenile shoplifters. Educators are tasked with helping students to identify racist beliefs and reduce worldwide organisational racism in the retail industry. Consistent with this goal, 166 urban college students in the U.S. provided physical appearance, behaviour, and family characteristics comprising their stereotype of a juvenile shoplifter. After reading one of 10 shoplifting vignettes with different combinations of sex and race/ethnicity of 14-year-old shoplifter, students made decisions relevant to identification, surveillance, and consequences. Marginalised juveniles were selected the most for surveillance and given harsher, formal consequences consistent with predictions they would recidivate. The findings suggest that instructors must implement specific changes in their curriculum to guide students towards learning objective prevention measures instead of relying on discriminatory offender profiling. Instructors must teach students to pre-identify their biases and engage in critical thinking tasks to determine the best proactive detection strategies for identifying juvenile shoplifters to avoid unfair treatment of consumers from marginalised groups in their own countries.

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教育大学生防损工作:了解刻板印象及其对未成年商店扒手的监视和惩罚决策的作用

摘要本文的目的是通过对少年扒手的侦查这一特殊的应用技能的研究，来改进专上职业教育课程对私家保安专业学生的教育。教育工作者的任务是帮助学生识别种族主义信仰，减少零售业中全球范围内的组织种族主义。为了实现这一目标，美国166名城市大学生提供了他们心目中少年商店扒手的外貌、行为和家庭特征。在阅读了10个不同性别和种族组合的14岁扒手的商店行窃小故事后，学生们做出了与识别、监视和后果相关的决定。被边缘化的青少年被选为最受监视的对象，并受到更严厉、更正式的惩罚，这与他们可能再犯的预测相一致。研究结果表明，教师必须在课程中实施具体的改革，引导学生学习客观的预防措施，而不是依赖于歧视性的罪犯分析。教师必须教学生预先识别他们的偏见，并参与批判性思维任务，以确定识别青少年商店扒手的最佳主动检测策略，以避免对来自本国边缘化群体的消费者的不公平待遇。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.