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In the United States the phenomenon of racial profiling has emerged as an important and controversial issue within political and criminal justice policy debates. For the most part, these debates have assumed a sort of racism at work in order to explain law enforcement's use of criminal profiles largely determined by racial classifications. Accordingly, many have worked to expose this allegedly racist behavior in the hopes that such exposure will bring an end to the practice. This essay argues that racial profiling is embedded in much larger social developments that must be explored in order to understand the role race now plays in the maintenance of social order in contemporary American society.
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Rose, W. Crimes of Color: Risk, Profiling, and the Contemporary Racialization of Social Control. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16, 179–205 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020572912884
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020572912884