Title: Racial profiling : from rhetoric to reason /
Authors: Withrow, Brian L.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement United States; Police-community relations United States.; Criminal justice, Administration of United States
Abstract: "The purpose of this book is to encourage the transformation of the racial profiling controversy from its current rhetoric of exaggerated and unsupported conclusions into a reasoned and scientific inquiry.
Contents: 1. An emergence -- Introduction -- The police and the minority community -- Police abuse and the minority community -- The influence of race in police decision making -- Differential community support for the police -- The promise and peril of community policing -- Profiling as an enforcement tool -- Profiling defined -- Hijacker profiling -- Criminal profiling -- Drug courier profiling -- How race became a part of the profile -- Arguments for including race in the profile -- Arguments against including race in the profile -- The dynamics of the traffic stop -- The stories and media attention -- Whren v. United States -- New Jersey : racial profiling's ground zero -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Case studies -- 2. What we know and don't know -- Introduction -- Definitions and measures -- Definitions -- Measures -- The structure of racial profiling inquiry -- Salient research questions -- Are minorities stopped more frequently? -- Are there differences in the reasons for the stops? -- Are minorities searched more frequently? -- Are stops involving minorities more punitive? -- Are minorities detained longer during stops? -- Are incidents involving physical resistance and confrontation more frequent? -- Do officer characteristics matter? -- Overall limitations of the research -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Case studies.