Racial profiling
By: Noël Merino, book editor
Series: Current controversies
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780737772234; 9780737772241
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement; Discrimination in law enforcement
Work titles: Racial profiling (2015)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Is racial profiling a problem? How the hunt for bin Laden made US Muslims and immigrants threats / Seth Freed Wessler; title: Racial profiling is being used in immigration checks / Aura Bogado; title: Racial profiling is a rational response to information / Walter E. Williams; title: Racial disparities in police activity do not indicate racial profiling / Heather Mac Donald; title: Profiling on steroids / John F. McManus; title: 2. Should Arab Muslims be profiled in the war on terror? Overview: Perceptions of racial profiling by Muslim Americans / Pew Research Center; title: Airport security : let's profile Muslims / Asra Q. Nomani; title: Concerns about racial profiling should not inhibit terrorist surveillance / Richard A. Epstein; title: Spooked by the underwear bomber : instead of body scanners and ethnic profiling we need patience and resilience to tackle terrorism / Mehdi Hasan; title: Racial profiling is ineffective in catching terrorists / Elahe Izadi; title: Racial profiling in the war on terror leads to dangerous practices / Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; title: 3. What are the causes and consequences of racial profiling? Trayvon Martin : confronting the problem of enduring racism / Doug Bandow; title: A trial in black and white / Kevin Alexander Gray; title: Justice for the system : there is no institutional racism in our courts and police stations / Ian Tuttle; title: Racial profiling in America is part of systemic racism / Gary Younge; title: We are all Juan Williams : associating minorities with crime is irrational, unjust, and completely normal / Shankar Vedantam; title: Racial profiling may increase crime among those not profiled / Eric Horowitz; title: 4. What should be done about racial profiling? Racism against young African American men needs to be addressed / Barack Obama; title: Facing facts about race / Victor Davis Hanson; title: There is a need for the End Racial Profiling Act / Benjamin L. Cardin; title: There is no need for the End Racial Profiling Act / Roger Clegg; title: Proposed prohibitions on racial profiling will hinder law enforcement / Linda Chavez.