Racial Profiling: Eliminating the Confusion Between Racial and Criminal Profiling and Clarifying What Constitutes Unfair Discrimination and Persecution [Paperback]

Darin D. Fredrickson (Author), Raymond P. Siljander (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0398072566 | ISBN-13: 978-0398072568

This book was written to eliminate confusion regarding what has come to be called racial profiling by clarifying the legitimate law enforcement practice of criminal profiling, and by clarifying what constitutes unfair discrimination, and persecution. This book was written to benefit sociology students, law enforcement officers, and anyone else in a position to be concerned with, or affected by, the profiling issue. Police administrators, judges, and legislators, must adequately understand the topics and their many ramifications if they are to make decisions that are based on fact rather than stereotype and myth, and free from the influence of adverse social and political pressures. And, attorneys, when prosecuting or defending cases wherein profiling and discrimination is an issue must have good insight into the many interrelated dynamics of the topics to properly prepare and argue their case. This writing explores difficult social issues that are often poorly understood, but issues that need to be understood if solutions are to be meaningful. And, a poorly conceived solution is especially likely when the issues are both complex and controversial. In this book, the writers acknowledge that while criminal profiling is a necessary and legitimate law enforcement practice, unchecked bias can pollute the practice. And, while they acknowledge that measures to detect those whose enforcement practices reflect bias can have merit, they emphasize that such efforts must be in addition to the hiring of high caliber officers, providing quality training, providing competent leadership, and on a properly staffed and trained Internal Affairs department. But, the authors also emphasize the unfortunate fact that many efforts intended to prevent bias are to varying degrees ineffectual and create collateral problems. Germane to that discussion is illumination of the difficulties of monitoring fair treatment policies, and the unintended problems that often accompany consent decrees.

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About the Author

Detective Fredrickson holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Management from Ottawa University, Kansas. He is the co-author of Applied Police & Fire Photography (2nd edition), and Terrorist Attacks (2nd edition). He has also written several criminal justice articles for various publications. He began his law enforcement career in 1991, and presently serves as a detective with the Drug Enforcement Bureau of the Phoenix Police Department, Phoenix, Arizona. He is a certified instructor with the Arizona Law Enforcement Academy in Street Drugs, Cultural Awareness, and Crime Scene Photography. He speaks to various groups on law enforcement issues.

Mr. Siljander holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Human Services, an Associate Degree in Law Enforcement, an Associate Degree in Fire Science Technology, has completed several specialized courses with private educational institutions, has completed numerous in-service training courses in law enforcement, and he holds the professional designation Associate in Loss Control Management. He has appeared as a speaker for in-service training for law enforcement, and the insurance industry. He is the author and co-author of several technical books: Applied Surveillance Photography, Applied Police & Fire Photography (1st & 2nd Edition), Fundamentals of Physical Surveillance, Terrorist Attacks (1st & 2nd Edition), Introduction to Business & Industrial Security and Loss Control, Fundamentals of Civil and Private Investigation, and Private Investigation & Process Serving. He has also written several law enforcement magazine articles. While in the armed forces, Mr. Siljander served three tours of duty in Vietnam, being honorably discharged in 1972. His diversified occupational history includes a variety of manufacturing and service industries in addition to the insurance industry; industrial security supervision, licensed private investigator doing general and undercover investigations, licensed process server, and local law enforcement as a certified police officer having graduated first in his class in the police academy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0398072566
• ISBN-13: 978-0398072568
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,419,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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