Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling

by Jack Glaser

Book Overview

Until now, most discussion of racial profiling has given only fleeting consideration of its causes. Those causes are overwhelmingly psychological. In Suspect Race, social psychologist and public policy expert Jack Glaser leverages a century's worth of social psychological research to provide a clear understanding of how stereotypes, even those operating outside of conscious awareness or control, can cause police to make discriminatory judgments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195370406
• ISBN13: 9780195370409
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"