Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling
Jack Glaser
Abstract
This book provides a clear understanding of how stereotypes, even those operating outside of conscious awareness or control, can cause police to make discriminatory judgments and decisions about whom to suspect, stop, question, search, use force on, and arrest. It argues that stereotyping, even nonconscious stereotyping, is a completely normal human mental process, but that it leads to undesirable discriminatory outcomes. Additionally, he finds evidence that racial profiling can actually increase crime, and he considers the implications for racial profiling in counterterrorism. This book bring ... More
This book provides a clear understanding of how stereotypes, even those operating outside of conscious awareness or control, can cause police to make discriminatory judgments and decisions about whom to suspect, stop, question, search, use force on, and arrest. It argues that stereotyping, even nonconscious stereotyping, is a completely normal human mental process, but that it leads to undesirable discriminatory outcomes. Additionally, he finds evidence that racial profiling can actually increase crime, and he considers the implications for racial profiling in counterterrorism. This book brings to bear the vast scientific literature on intergroup stereotyping to offer the first in-depth and accessible understanding of the primary cause of racial profiling and to explore implications for policy.
Keywords:
racial profiling,
racial bias,
law enforcement,
stop and frisk,
stereotyping,
public policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195370409 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370409.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jack Glaser, author
The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, The University of California, Berkeley
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