... discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, or language (Galtung, 1990). Furthermore, Galtung’s (1990) Violence Triangle indicates that cultural and structural violence cause direct violence. Direct violence is visible as behavior that reinforces structural and cultural violence in the triangle. However...

... Immigrants Discrimination Attributions Cognitive processing Sample differences Understanding attitudes toward immigrants is important because attitudes are a key component in the formation of prejudice, which can lead to discrimination (Quillan, 2006). For example, jurors who hold negative attitudes...

... of basic social psychological findings that ambiguity and discretion facilitate discrimination. As a prominent example, under aversive racism theory (Pearson et al., 2009), when making decisions about racial minorities, white people try to select the “correct” alternative when it is clear which...

..., and threatening when the harasser was lesbian than when she was heterosexual. As hypothesized, female participants found more evidence of discrimination than male participants. Research limitations/implications These findings illustrate biases mock jurors may hold when making legal decisions in female-female...

... to investigate whether gay defendants might be particularly discriminated against if they are also Christian. It is also the first to test the black sheep and similarity-leniency theories in the legal context of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Christian defendants. 14 08 2015 01 10 2015...

... in the community engagement Pathfinder programme. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Counter‐terrorism Al‐Qaida Muslim communities Community engagement Police Preventing violent extremism Crime Community safety Discrimination Al-Qaida-influenced violent extremism, UK government...