Racial profiling research, racism, and resistance /

• Main Author: Glover, Karen S., 1964-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2009.
• Series: Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
• Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement.; Racism > research on.; "Driving while black."; African Americans and law enforcement.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Law Enforcement. > Political Freedom & Security; Kriminologie.; Rassendiskriminierung.; Electronic books.
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Karen S. Glover investigates the social science practices of racial profiling inquiry, examining their key influence in shaping public understandings of race, law, and law enforcement. Commonly manifesting in the traffic stop, the association with racialminority status and criminality challenges the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: To a critical race criminology
• History, entree, and the rise of racial profiling research
• Defending the constitution?
• The racial project of mainstream criminology's approach to understanding racial profiling
• Critical race methodology and race theory
• Concepts in citizenship
• An ethnographic reading on racial profiling
• Vicarious experience, panopticonism, and oral history
• Conclusion.