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Article Dans Une Revue Criminal Justice Ethics Année : 2007

What’s Wrong with Racial profiling? Another Look at the Problem

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According to Mathias Risse and Richard Zeckhauser, racial profiling can be justified in a society, such as the contemporary United States, where the legacy of slavery and segregation is found in lesser but, nonetheless, troubling forms of racial inequality. Racial profiling, Risse and Zeckhauser recognize, is often marked by police abuse and the harassment of racial minorities and by the disproportionate use of race in profiling. These, on their view, are unjustified. But, they contend, this does not mean that all forms of racial profiling are unjustified; nor, they claim, need one be indifferent to the harms of racism in order to justify racial profiling. In fact, one of the aims of their paper is to show that racial profiling, suitably understood, “is consistent with support for far-reaching measures to decrease racial inequities and inequality.”2 Hence, one of their most striking claims, in an original and provocative paper, is that one can endorse racial profiling without being in any way indifferent to the disadvantaged status of racial minorities. [First paragraph]
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Annabelle Lever. What’s Wrong with Racial profiling? Another Look at the Problem. Criminal Justice Ethics, 2007, 26 (1), pp.20 - 28. ⟨hal-02506494⟩
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