How Fear Influences Lawmaking: Georgia State Criminologist Explores How Fear Responses Impact Risk Perception
How Fear Influences Lawmaking: Georgia State Criminologist Explores How Fear Responses Impact Risk Perception
Kat Albrecht, an Assistant Professor in Georgia State University’s Criminal Justice and Criminology Department, is a co-author of a new law review article that examines how fear, especially when amplified by media and politics, becomes embedded in legal systems with long-lasting consequences.
In “Fear the Law: Codifying Fear Through the Objectification of the Law,” an article recently published by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Criminal Justice Law Review, Albrecht and co-authors observed how subtle language changes influence perceptions of fear and risk – with real-world consequences for policy and law.
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