Download e-book for iPad: Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling by Jack Glaser

By Jack Glaser

ISBN-10: 0195370406

ISBN-13: 9780195370409

earlier, so much dialogue of racial profiling has given basically fleeting attention of its reasons. these factors are overwhelmingly mental. In Suspect Race, social psychologist and public coverage professional Jack Glaser leverages a century's worthy of social mental examine to supply a transparent knowing of the way stereotypes, even these working outdoor of wide awake know-how or keep watch over, may cause police to make discriminatory judgments and judgements approximately who to suspect, cease, query, seek, use strength on, and arrest. Glaser argues that stereotyping, even nonconscious stereotyping, is a very basic human psychological approach, yet that it ends up in bad discriminatory results. law enforcement officials are common people with basic cognition. they're as a result stimulated by means of racial stereotypes that experience lengthy attached minorities with aggression and crime. Efforts to in simple terms restrict racial profiling are insufficient. also, Glaser unearths proof that racial profiling can really elevate crime, and he considers the consequences for racial profiling in counterterrorism, discovering a few similarities and a few attention-grabbing modifications with drug struggle profiling. ultimately, he examines the coverage panorama on which racial profiling is living and demands greater information assortment and supervision, decreased discretion, and elevated accountability.

Drawing on criminology, heritage, mental technology, and criminal and coverage research, Glaser bargains a wide and deep evaluate of the motives and outcome of racial profiling. Suspect Race brings to endure the great clinical literature on intergroup stereotyping to provide the 1st in-depth and obtainable knowing of the first reason for racial profiling, and to discover implications for policy.

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