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Adultification bias is a form of racial prejudice where children of minority groups, such as African American girls, are treated as being more mature than they actually are by a reasonable social standard of development.

As such, African American girls have reported to be treated unfairly such as their true ages were disbelieved when they told authority figures like police officers, and facing consequences in school for misbehavior while white girls doing the same acts would have their young ages taken into account.

'''In a study by Georgia Law Center on poverty and inequality it was reported when adults were surveyed on black girl's compared to white girl's innocence, black girls were distinguished by those adults to have adult-like traits and expectations from the ages 5-19.  Research by Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff similarly concluded that black boys were associated to lack innocence compared to white individuals their age, which in turn would later affect how they are treated by authority figures like police officers. '''