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Profiling and criminal justice in America : a reference handbook /

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"Seven of ten African American men between the ages of 18 and 34 believe they have been victims of an insidious form of discrimination: racial profiling. Are they right? Or rather, is profiling a legitimate, fair, and effective law enforcement tool? This unique handbook examines the history beh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bumgarner, Jeffrey B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2015]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Contemporary world issues.
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Racial profiling in law enforcement > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Racial profiling in law enforcement.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Background and history. Introduction ; Definitions ; Importance of studying criminal justice profiling ; The criminal justice system ;Profiling and political philosophy ; Pluralism: the American ideal ; Elitism: the American reality? ; Applications of criminal justice profiling ; Profiling by the police ; The origins of police institutions ; Slave patrols ; Emerging theories of crime and profiling ; Common police profiles ; The hijacker ; The serial killer ; Drug courier ; Proactive and reactive profiling ; Prosecutorial and judicial profiling
  • 2. Problems, controversies, and solutions. Stereotyping and profiling ; Police discretion ; Charging decisions ; In court At sentencing ; Constitution and civil rights ; Pros and cons of criminal profiling ; Arguments against profiling ; Arguments for profiling ; Remedies ; Profiling after September 11
  • 3. Perspectives. On racial profiling / Thorvald O. Dahle ; Criminal behavioral profiling: a critical perspective / Penny R. Shtull ; Media influence on perceived offender-victim relationship / Paige Heinrich ; Going beyond "flying while Arab": Islamophobic profiling in the era of homeland security / Connie M. Koski ; Profiling as a positive intervention for managing people with mental illness in the criminal justice system / Pat Nelson ; Negative stereotypes, discrimination, poverty, and anger: the enduring factors leading to African Americans' overrepresentation in prison / Lauren Kientz Anderson ; Epidemic proportions: how person and environment combine in the overrepresentation of African Americans in the criminal justice system / Raphael Travis Jr.
  • 4. Profiles. Personalities: Freda Adler (1933- ) ; Joe Arpaio (1932- ) ; Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) ; Julian Bond (1940- ) ; Henry Brown (1836-1913) ; Warren E. Burger (1907-1995) ; William J. Clinton (1946- ) ; Morris Dees (1936- ) ; John Douglas (1947- ) ; W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963) ; Franz Gall (1758-1828) ; Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933- ) ; Herman Goldstein (1931- ) ; John M. Harlan (1833-1911) ; Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ; J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) ; Jesse Jackson (1941- ) ; Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) ; Rodney King (1965-2012) ; John Lewis (1940- ) ; Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) ; Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) ; Kweisi Mfume (1948- ) ; Rosa Parks (1913-2005) ; Lewis Powell (1907-1998) ; William H. Rehnquist (1924-2005) ; Janet Reno (1938- ) ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ; Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) ; Antonin Scalia (1936- ) ; Al Sharpton (1954- ) ; Roger Taney (1777-1864) ; August Vollmer (1876-1955) ; Earl Warren (1891-1974) ; Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) ; Byron White (1917-2002) ; Christine Todd Whitman (1947- ) ; James Q. Wilson (1931-2012) ; O.W. Wilson (1900-1972) ; Organizations and agencies: Private organizations ; Federal government agencies ; State government agencies
  • 5. Data and documents. Government documents ; Civil rights complaints in U.S. district court: 1990-2006 ; Confronting discrimination in the post-9/11 era: challenges and opportunities ten years later ; Contacts between the police and the public, 2008 ; Correctional populations in the United States, 2012 ; End Racial Profiling Act of 2013 ; Guidelines regarding the use of race by federal law enforcement agencies ; Immigration offenders in the federal justice system, 2010 ; Police behavior during traffic and street stops, 2011 ; Prisoners in 2011 ; Probation and parole in the United States, 2011 ; Protecting civil rights: a leadership guide for state, local, and tribal law ; Enforcement ; Protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individuals ; Protecting women's rights ; Racial profiling: legal and constitutional issues ; Racial profiling factsheet ; Key Supreme Court cases ; Documents, Korematsu v. United States 323 U.S. 214 (1994) ; Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 (1961) ; Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 (1979) ; Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. LS. 79 (1986) ; United States v. Sokolow, 490 U.S. 1 (1989) ; Whren v. United States (1966)
  • 6. Resources. Academic studies ; Books
  • 7. Chronology.
  • Background and history
  • Problems, controversies, and solutions
  • Perspectives
  • Profiles
  • Data and documents
  • Resources
  • Chronology.