RacialProfiling

toc =Racial Profiling=



This guide is designed to help you research information about Racial Profiling. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
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=Books=

Books
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Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * Racial profiling
 * Race and crime
 * Police and race

New Books
//There are no new books on this topic at this time.//

Circulating Books
Hahn, Kathy L., ed. //Racial Profiling.// Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Print.
 * Call Number: HV7936.R3 R326 2011**

Bumgarner, Jeffrey B. //Profiling and Criminal Justice in America//. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: HV9950 .B86 2004**

Harris, David A. //Profiles in Injustice: Why racial profiling cannot work//. New York: New Press, 2002. Print.
 * Call Number: HV8141 .H298 2002**

Walker, Samuel, Cassia Spohn, and Miriam DeLone. //The Color of Justice: Race, ethnicity, and crime in America//. Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: HV9950. W33 2007**

Reference Books
Barak, Gregg, ed. //Battleground: Criminal justice//. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: REF HV7411 .B38 2007**

Dressler, Joshua, ed. //Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice.// New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. HV6017 .E52 2002.**

Sullivan Larry, ed. //Encyclopedia of Law Enforcemen//t. Thousand Oaks: SagePublications, 2005.Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. HV7921. E53 2005.**

Russell-Brown, Katheryn, ed. //Race and Crime: An annotated bibliography//. Westpor: Greenwood Press, 2000. Print.
 * Call Number: REF Z5703.5 .U5 R87 2000.**

Pampel, Fred C. //Racial Profiling//. New York: Facts on File, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: Ref. 8141 .P26 2004.**

=Articles=

[|Criminal Justice Collection]
Has over 150 criminal Justice and law journals. Over 150 full text articles mentioning "racial profiling".

[|Academic Search Premier]
Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over 585 full text articles mentioning "racial profiling". [|Tutorial]

[|Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center]
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

[|Issues and Controversies]
Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today. It has a section called "race and crime". There is good information on "racial profiling".

==[|African American Experience]== The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture. Over 185 articles mentioning "racial profiling".

=Web sites= There are many good web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

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 * [|Google]

Web sites
[|ACLU: Racial Profiling] Reports and news updates on racial profiling. [|Amnesty International USA] Information and reports about racial profiling. [|Racial Profiling Data Collection Rsource Center at Northeastern University] Statistics and research covering racial profiling.

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

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Research guide prepared on 09/20/08 by Wiliam Hoag:whoag@rcc.mass.edu. Updated on 4/18/14 by Joy Singletary.