Suspect Race
Subtitle: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195370409
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement, united states; Stereotypes (social psychology); Race discrimination
Description: Social psychologist and public policy expert Jack Glaser unpicks a century's worth of social psychological research to provide a clear understanding of how stereotypes, even those operating outside of conscious awareness or control, can cause police to make discriminatory judgments and decisions about whom to suspect, stop, question, search, use force on, and arrest. Glaser argues that stereotyping, even non-conscious stereotyping, is a completely normal human mental process, but that it leads to undesirable discriminatory outcomes.