A police officer who has classist beliefs about who is most likely to use drugs might focus her policing in poor neighborhoods or handle teens from rich neighborhoods informally by taking them home to their parents if they get in trouble, while handling poorer teens formally and arresting them for their bad behavior.

(A) Individual Classism

(B) Individual Racism

(C) Individual Sexism

(D) Institutional Classism

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Conor Knapp

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10 March, 21:56

A police officer who has classist beliefs about who is most likely to use drugs might focus her policing in poor neighborhoods or handle teens from rich neighborhoods informally by taking them home to their parents if they get in trouble, while handling poorer teens formally and arresting them for their bad behavior.

(A) Individual Classism

(B) Individual Racism

(C) Individual Sexism

(D) Institutional Classism

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Giada · Answer 1

(D) Institutional Classism

Explanation:

The fact of treating differently two groups of the same age group, which are involved in the same types of activity, but that are of different social classes configures in classissism. Classism is class prejudice, so that the poorest are marginalized while the richest are treated with privilege. The fact that classissism in the narrated case is executed by a policeman, configures in a situation of institutional classissism, since the policeman is a public agent, representative of the state.