Language:
English
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2(2014), 3, Seite 52-59
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volume:2
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year:2014
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number:3
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pages:52-59
DDC:
360
Keywords:
Rassismus
;
Kriminalität
;
Soziologie
;
Polizei
;
Gruppenbildung
;
Ethnizität
;
Exklusion
;
Inklusion
;
soziale Integration
;
Praxis
;
Rhetorik
;
Afroamerikaner
;
Profilerstellung
Abstract:
Economists and other interested academics have committed significant time and effort to developing a set of circumstances under which an intelligent and circumspect form of racial profiling can serve as an effective tool in crime finding-the specific objective of finding criminal activity afoot. In turn, anti-profiling advocates tend to focus on the immediate efficacy of the practice, the morality of the practice, and/or the legality of the practice. However, the tenor of this opposition invites racial profiling proponents to develop more surgical profiling techniques to employ in crime finding. In the article, I review the literature on group distinction to discern its relevance to the practice and study of racial profiling. I argue that the costs of racial profiling extend beyond inefficient policing and the humiliation of law-abiding minority pedestrians and drivers. Racial profiling is simultaneously a process of perception and articulation of relative human characteristics (bo
DOI:
10.17645/si.v2i3.126
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