Provides an overview and background of racial profiling that includes law enforcement, immigration, and anti-terrorism screening and includes reference resources and research guides as well as information on key Supreme Court cases.</div>
Racial Profiling
β Scribed by NoΓ«l Merino
- Publisher
- Greenhaven Publishing LLC
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 183
- Series
- Current Controversies Ser.
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The writings in this anthology have been selected to introduce your readers to a wide array of viewpoints on the use of racial profiling in law enforcement. Written by foremost authorities in the field, these essays express leading liberal, conservative, and centrist views. Each chapter asks a relevant question about the topic, and the viewpoints that follow are grouped into "yes" and "no" categories. Questions debated in this book are whether racial profiling is a problem, whether Arab Muslims should be profiled in the War on Terror, what the causes and consequences of racial profiling are, and what should be done about it.
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