Good Cop, Bad Cop

Racial Profiling and Competing Views of Justice

Lance Cassak, Milton Heumann (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2007 | 3rd Revised edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-5829-8 (ISBN)

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Good Cop, Bad Cop looks at the rise of racial profiling, one of the most important and hotly debated topics in criminal justice, and traces its development from its origins in criminal profiling, through the use of profiles in drug trafficking prevention efforts in airports and on the U.S. highways, until it became synonymous with racial discrimination by law enforcement. The authors draw upon an extensive body of primary sources, social science literature, and court cases to examine how law enforcement, legislators, and the courts have handled racial profiling. They also review the debate over racial profiling, offering arguments made by its opponents and defenders before and after the events of September 11 and describe its development as both a legal and a cultural concept.

«‘Profiling’ can be a psychiatrist’s prediction that a serial bomber will prove to be heavy-set, single, middle-aged, foreign-born, and Roman Catholic. It can be a federal task force’s identification of 25 to 30 characteristics shared by many airplane hijackers but not by most members of the public. It can be a federal drug agent’s personal, constantly changing list of characteristics supposedly indicative of drug trafficking. It can be the practice of making traffic arrests of blacks and Latinos more often than whites because highway patrol officers believe that blacks and Latinos are more likely to be drug couriers. It can be a list of the characteristics of the bank accounts used to finance past terrorist activities. It can even be any law enforcement action a critic wants to call racially biased. In ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’, Milton Heumann and Lance Cassak examine these uses of the chameleon-like concept, tracing how one use has led to another. The result is an original, important, readable, engaging, and thought-provoking study.» (Albert W. Alschuler, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago School of Law)

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Crime and Punishment ; 10
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Crime and Punishment ; 10
Zusatzinfo	4 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-5829-5 / 0820458295
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-5829-8 / 9780820458298
Zustand	Neuware