
Using primary empirical studies and extensive, in-depth interviews, this volume draws on nearly two years of field research into how minorities experience racial profiling by police authorities. The book examines what racial profiling is, its historical context, and how formal...

Many racial minority communities claim profiling occurs frequently in their neighborhoods. Police authorities, for the most part, deny that they engage in racially biased police tactics. A handful of books have been published on the topic, but they tend to offer only anecdotal...