scholarly journals Racial and ethnic profiling in Massachusetts

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Gabrielle Hakstian
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Profiling

scholarly journals To catch a terrorist: can ethnic profiling work?

Significance ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Press
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Profiling

Ethnic profiling as negotiating: Traffic law enforcement in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia)

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leisan Khalioullina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Quality Measurement ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Ethnic Profiling ◽  
Traffic Law Enforcement ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ethnic Policy

Complex and ambiguous relations between state officials and civilians in Russia in general, and in Tatarstan in particular, are best reflected by daily communications between traffic police officers and motorists and pedestrians. These short interactions bring up issues of violence and minority discrimination, bribing, and dominant political values. In this paper based on my field research, I explore the practice of ethnic profiling employed by police officers and analyze its effects. I focus on identity construction and its “quality measurement.” Unlike a standardized system of weights or “brute facts,” law enforcement involves the creation of identities, including selective and sanctioned usage of, and manipulation by, ethnic traits. I conclude that ethnic profiling exists in Tatarstan, but stems not from nationalist inspirations of the controlling agents, but rather as an effect of rational economic decision-making. I also argue that despite its haphazard nature, ethnic minorities in Tatarstan are able to interact with controlling agencies more effectively than the majority, partially due to their alleged ability to employ collective action and partially because of the specific ethnic policy of the Republic.

scholarly journals When Citizens Are “Actually Doing Police Work”: The Blurring of Boundaries in WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Groups in The Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 272-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk Mols ◽  
Jason Pridmore
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Community Police ◽  
Neighbourhood Watch ◽  
Camera Phones ◽  
Ethnic Profiling

Neighbourhood watch messaging groups are part of an already pervasive phenomenon in The Netherlands, despite having only recently emerged. In many neighbourhoods, street signs have been installed to make passers-by aware of active neighbourhood surveillance. In messaging groups (using WhatsApp or similar communication apps), neighbours exchange warnings, concerns, and information about incidents, emergencies, and (allegedly) suspicious situations. These exchanges often lead to neighbours actively protecting and monitoring their streets, sending messages about suspicious activities, and using camera-phones to record events. While citizen-initiated participatory policing practices in the neighbourhood can increase (experiences of) safety and social cohesion, they often default to lateral surveillance, ethnic profiling, risky vigilantism, and distrust towards neighbours and strangers. Whereas the use of messaging apps is central, WhatsApp neighbourhood crime prevention (WNCP) groups are heterogeneous: they vary from independent self-organised policing networks to neighbours working with and alongside community police. As suggested by one of our interviewees, this can lead to citizens “actually doing police work,” which complicates relationships between police and citizens. This paper draws on interviews and focus groups in order to examine participatory policing practices and the responsibilisation of citizens for their neighbourhood safety and security. This exploration of actual practices shows that these often diverge from the intended process and that the blurring of boundaries between police and citizens complicates issues of accountability and normalises suspicion and the responsibilisation of citizens.

scholarly journals ETHNIC PROFILING AND COUNTERTERRORISM IN EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME: A PHILOSOPHICAL LEGAL REVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Mahaarum Kusuma Pertiwi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Ethnic Profiling

AbstractThis essay will analyze the European Union framework of ethnic profiling in the aim of combating terrorism that will be contrasted to the principle of non-discrimination that is fundamental in the European regime of Human Rights. Research question in this essay is whether the European human rights regime consistently holds the principle of non-discriminatory in justifying the use of ethnic profiling in combating terrorism. IntisariMakalah ini akan membahas mengenai kebijakan profil etnis (ethnic profiling) dalam rangka memerangi terorisme di Uni Eropa yang akan dikontraskan dengan prinsip non-diskriminasi yang juga merupakan hal penting dan mendasar dalam perlindungan Hak Asasi Manusia di Eropa. Permasalahan mendasar yang dikaji dalam studi ini adalah apakah Uni Eropa konsisten dalam memegang prinsip non-diskriminasi ketika membenarkan penggunaan kebijakan profil etnis dalam memberantas terorisme.

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