Ethnic profiling
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Ethnic profiling is the attempt to use ethnicity as a primary determinant in the characterization of persons considered likely to commit a particular type of crime (see Offender Profiling). Advocates of ethnic profiling wish to use it as a means to single out individuals for special scrutiny and restrictions of their liberty for alleged security and law enforcement purposes.
[edit] Relationship to racial profiling
The term is derived conceptually from racial profiling, which attempts to use race as a primary predictor of criminal behavior.
In common usage the terms race and ethnicity are often conflated.
[edit] See also
- Racism
- Discrimination
- Institutionalized discrimination
- State racism
- Racial segregation
- Race and crime
- Media and ethnicity
- Pseudo Science
- List of anti-discrimination acts
- Second-class citizen
- Religious intolerance
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[edit] External links
- "Ethnic Profiling: A Rational and Moral Framework", by Robert A. Levy (Cato Institute, October 2, 2001)
- "Racial Profiling in an Age of Terrorism", By Peter Siggins (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, March 12, 2002)
- "Bombing Our Illusions", by Sam Harris (Huffington Post, October 10, 2005)
- "The Ethics of Ethnic Profiling", by Jonathan Wallace (2007)
