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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Racial Profiling"”.
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Experiencing Racial Profiling: Process, Effects and Explanations
What are the effects of profiling a minority group? I propose that being profiled lowers an individual's opinions of police as well as harms the police-community relationship. I analyze the results of a snowball sample consisting of qualitative interviews of six young African American males who …
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Racial Profiling and Policing in North Carolina: Reality or Rhetoric?
… Highway Patrol concerning the occurrence of racial profiling. The sample data consisted of motorists stopped in North Carolina by the Highway Patrol between January 1, 2000 and July 31, 2000 (N = 332, 861). The findings suggested that race was a likely factor in pretextual stops. The results …
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Factors That Influence Perceptions of Racial Profiling During Police/Motorist Interactions
Most racial profiling studies are quantitative and rely on benchmarking and outcome tests. Several studies have focused on citizens' beliefs about the prevalence of racial profiling and their opinions regarding racial profiling. At this time, no research identifies the factors within a particular …
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A National Analysis of Racial Profiling and Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Traffic Stops for African Americans
The unequal treatment of racial minorities by police is by no means a new concept. The debate over racial profiling centers on two questions. Does racial profiling actually occur? If so, is racial profiling being used and is profiling a legitimate tool of law enforcement? There are those who debate …
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The Relationship Between Community Policing, Police Profiling And Brutality, And How It Relates To Minority Communities’ Perceptions Of Police
… of police-related mortality and experiencing racial profiling by the police and are more likely to report negative perceptions of the police than White Americans. Community policing has been proposed as a viable solution to this problem. Residents’ perceptions of the police seem to be …
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Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data
… from the multilevel analyses fail to show that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White youth to be stopped by the police. Independent of differences in behavior, Black youth are, however, more likely to be arrested than White adolescents. There is no significant difference …
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Why Are Some Statistical Generalizations Epistemically Risky?
… For example, one might think that in cases of racial profiling, because the moral stakes of belief are high, what would otherwise constitute good evidence for belief is insufficient. However, most METs assume that the probabilistic evidence on which one relies to form their belief is good …
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From the Yonge Street Riot to the Carding Controversy: Policing and Surveilling the Black Community in Toronto, Canada, 1992-2016
In the last decade, the conversation surrounding racial profiling and carding in the city of Toronto garnered much public and scholarly attention. Many journalists, academics and activists have examined the Community Contacts Policy, also known as carding, as well as mass incarceration and the …
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The Student Police Unity League and Intergroup Contact Theory
… outcome justice, and lower level of perceived racial profiling. While the majority of the findings did not reach statistical significance at the .05 level, participation in the Student Police Unity league did lead to better views of police in terms of outcome justice and legitimacy. However, …
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Examining the Role of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Police Perceptions in Rural Kentucky
… demonstrated the role of race in understanding racial and ethnic differences in perceptions of the police. This research has overwhelmingly shown that Blacks and Latinos hold lower levels of trust and confidence in the police than do Whites and other racial minorities. The increased skepticism …
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The need for outreach programs for African American men in inner city areas
… school drop-out rates, lack of male role models, racial profiling, substance abuse, homicide rates, neighborhood violence, and high incarceration rates. The research focused on African American males from the Urbana-Champaign area (N=35, 17.0±2.1 yrs). The impact of these barriers on young …
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… are targeted more, and accuse authorities of racial profiling and discrimination in both the "random" selection and the actual pat-down procedure, but are often reluctant to resist or file official complaints. Expensive, intrusive technologies at security officials' disposal reinforce an …
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Race and Contact at Play: Understanding Blacks’ Experiences and Perceptions with Law Enforcement
… A long-standing history of systemic racial discrimination, marked by police brutality and racial profiling, has disproportionately targeted Black communities, leaving deep social scars that continue to fuel mistrust and skepticism toward law enforcement institutions. This study …
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Automobile Searches: The Gap Between the Theory and Praxis of Law
The overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities at every stage of the criminal justice process has brought about legislative, judicial, and voluntary data explorations of law enforcement practices. As the gatekeepers to the criminal justice process, police greatly influence who comes in …
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Traditions of song: Considering Moore’s Irish Melodies in relation to the songs of Robert Burns
… way in which Moore and Burns’songs problematise racial profiling by both travel writers who stressed the barbarity of the Irish and Scottish, but also challenged antiquarian preoccupation with attempting to redress these assertions of barbarity by glorifying historical achievements –particularly …
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Diplomas vs Incarceration: Does Intersectionality Affect Black Men and Women Differently?
<p>Racial minorities are disproportionately imprisoned or sent to jail for reasons including racial profiling, unfair drug laws, and a biased judicial system. Black men are often subject to unwarranted searches and stop-and-frisks. These are meant to protect neighborhoods from criminal activity, …
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Black in Kingston: Youth Perspectives on "Blackness" and Belonging in a Small Ontario City
… and questioned by Kingston police than any other racial group (Wortley and Marshall, 2005). This research, while not addressed to the specifics of racial profiling and policing in Kingston, focuses on the marginalized voices of male and female black youth in Kingston. Eight youth volunteered to …
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In Pursuit of Racial Justice: The Politics and Consequences of Racial Disparity Reform in the U.S. Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
Overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities is a troubling fact in the U.S. criminal and juvenile justice systems. The scope and racial character of American criminal processing is critically shaped by politics. Scholarship has focused on the politics that helped to forge a large and …
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Sight and blindness as an index of character in Luke-Acts and its cultural milieu.
… or even condemned as stereotyping or even racial profiling. Nonetheless, if such a study was common in the ancient world, then one can expect authors to make use of these physiognomic conventions, and one can expect that an audience would hear in such physical descriptions a corresponding …
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