A Critical Measure of Bias. Lynda Hurst.
by Hurst, Lynda; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 31Human Relations. Publisher: Toronto Star, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Civil rights | Discrimination in law enforcement | Evidence | Police -- Attitudes | Race discrimination | Racial profiling | Searches and seizuresDDC classification: 050 Summary: "There are few more volatile issues than racial profiling by police....Determining if racial profiling exists--and when it's 'a few bad apples' or the whole institutional tree--is at the core of a rising field of social science, born in the 1990s out of a series of contentious court cases in the U.S." (TORONTO STAR) This article discusses how attempting to measure racial profiling is difficult because creating a demographic benchmark to judge against is arduous and expensive.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Critical Measure of Bias, April 12, 2003; pp. A4.
"There are few more volatile issues than racial profiling by police....Determining if racial profiling exists--and when it's 'a few bad apples' or the whole institutional tree--is at the core of a rising field of social science, born in the 1990s out of a series of contentious court cases in the U.S." (TORONTO STAR) This article discusses how attempting to measure racial profiling is difficult because creating a demographic benchmark to judge against is arduous and expensive.
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