Profiles in injustice
Subtitle: why racial profiling cannot work
By: David A. Harris.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States; Law enforcement -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Profiles in injustice: American life under the regime of racial profiling; title: Profiling past and present, and high-discretion police tactics; title: Profiling unmasked: from criminal profiling to racial profiling; title: The hard numbers: why racial profiling doesn't add up; title: The costs of racial profiling: casualties and collateral damage; title: It's not just driving while Black: how profiling affects Latinos, Asians, and Arabs; title: Meeting the challenge of racial profiling; title: A case study: how one police agency changed for the better; title: Conclusion: the self-fulfilling prophecy and the future.