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By Karen S. Glover

ISBN-10: 0742561054

ISBN-13: 9780742561052

ISBN-10: 0742561062

ISBN-13: 9780742561069

Karen S. Glover investigates the social technological know-how practices of racial profiling inquiry, analyzing their key impression in shaping public understandings of race, legislations, and legislations enforcement. regularly manifesting within the site visitors cease, the organization with racial minority prestige and criminal activity demanding situations the basic precept of equivalent justice lower than the legislations as defined within the U.S. structure. groups of colour have lengthy voiced resistance to racialized legislation and legislation enforcement, but the physique of information approximately racial profiling not often engages those voices.

Applying a severe race framework, Glover presents in-depth interview facts and research that reveal the extensive social and criminal geographical regions of citizenship which are inherent to the racial profiling phenomenon. to illustrate the customarily refined workings of race and the legislation within the post-Civil Rights period, the ebook comprises exam of the 1996 U.S. excellent Court's Whren decision-a judicial pronouncement that enables pretextual motion by way of legislation enforcement and therefore widens legislation enforcement powers in judgements pertaining to whilst and opposed to whom legislation is applied.

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