KIE Faculty Colloquia Series: Lindsay Nelson-Burkert

9001 Stockdale Hwy,Bakersfield CA 93311

28 October, 2022

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“A Lack of Latinas in Law Enforcement: How Heroic Mindset Training May Offer a Solution”College graduates tend to be under-represented in some fields, such as Latinas in policing, and yet their growing enrollment in college criminal justice courses signifies an interest in a career within the system, such as law enforcement. There is an abundance of literature showing that females are just as competent as their male peers in these positions, with literature on minorities offering similar results, yet females make up less than 14% of officers, with Latina officers falling short of that. If these students are declaring criminal justice as their major, why aren’t they pursuing careers in law enforcement? Our research plans to identify key factors that prevent females, specifically Latinas, from pursuing law enforcement, as well as identifying proper mindset training practices by using the heroic skillset from Phil Zimbardo’s Heroic Imagination Project that will increase their confidence, and hopefully their interest, in the field. While gender and racial disparities exist in many professions, there has been little done in mindset training to address this inequality.