Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

Stephen Egharevba

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 372

ISBN13: 9781522510888|ISBN10: 1522510885|EISBN13: 9781522510895

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1088-8

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In order to protect and defend citizens, the foundational concepts of fairness and equality must be adhered to within any criminal justice system. When this is not the case, accountability of authorities should be pursued to maintain the integrity and pursuit of justice.

Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on social problems involving victimization of minorities and police accountability. Presenting relevant perspectives on a global and cross-cultural scale, this book is ideally designed for researchers, professionals, upper-level students, and practitioners involved in the fields of criminal justice and corrections.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies (ARCS) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

Understanding Fairness, Equality, and Police Legitimacy

Chapter 1

Understanding Fairness, Equality, and Police Legitimacy (pages 1-12)

Stephen Egharevba

For decades, research on minority predisposition to comply or cooperate with the police has evolved, as citizens' encounter and experiences with the police can affect their sense of self-belonging in societies. However, less...

Chapter 2

Perception of Race Discrimination by the Police in Europe (pages 13-37)

Daniel Larsson, Ulrika Schmauch

Procedural justice is an important principle in democratic societies, which fails when police discriminate minorities through for example racial profiling and during crime report procedures. This not only violates individuals'...

Chapter 3

Preference Does Not Have to be Personal: Explaining Police Perception within a Cross-Cultural Perspective in Finland (pages 38-59)

Stephen Egharevba

Research has shown that minorities, particularly Blacks are six times more and Asian are twice likely to be stereotyped, suspected, stopped and searched, as well as arrested, cautioned as these groups are more likely to be prosecuted...

Chapter 4

Police Legitimacy Conflicting Centres: Policing in Southern Africa (pages 60-88)

Kudakwashe Chirambwi

The chapter examines police legitimacy in the context of peacetime transition states, South Africa and Zimbabwe in particular, and argue that the complexity of legitimacy cannot be axially viewed as ‘acceptance of the moral authority...

Chapter 5

Crime Witnesses' Non-Cooperation in Police Investigations: Causes and Consequences in Nigeria (pages 89-99)

Usman Adekunle Ojedokun

The importance of crime witnesses in policing and crime control cannot be overemphasized. In Nigeria, a constant impediment in the effective operation of the criminal justice system machineries is the non-cooperation of crime...

Developing the Trajectories of Criminal Justice, Racial Profiling, Youth Crime, and Victimology

Chapter 6

The Color of Victimology: An Analysis of Race and Crimes (pages 101-112)

Kyrie Hernandezpeterson

Victims are the center of the criminal justice system. However, negative treatment by any service provider discourages individuals from taking advantage of the services being offered to victims through various organizations in their...

Chapter 7

Absence of Crime in African Migrants' Gambling and Policing in Finland: An Analysis (pages 113-137)

Perpetual Crentsil

Gambling is popular among African migrants in Finland. The Finnish lottery, for example, is highly patronised by many active African migrant gamblers and those who have gambled before. Many of these migrants also know that some types...

Chapter 8

The Spiral Effect of Incarceration: Bridging the Gap between Inmates and Families (pages 138-150)

Ekunwe Ikponwosa, Stephen Egharevba

The discussions surrounding imprisonment in response to crime in society has traditionally been on deterrent. A latent function of incarceration is the impact that a prison sentence has on the family of prisoners. Not much attention...

Chapter 9

Authority and Legitimacy: A Quantitative Study of Youth's Perceptions on the Brazilian Police (pages 151-213)

Nikolaos Stamatakis

Today, the majority of research has focused on legitimacy, while much less attention has been given to the sources of trust in the police (Nix et al., 2014). Limited attention has been also paid to the examination of legitimacy of...

Criminology, Courts, Theories of Offending, Media, and Prisons

Chapter 10

Defining and Understanding the Development of Juvenile Delinquency from an Environmental, Sociological, and Theoretical Perspective (pages 215-238)

Peter Arthur Barone

This chapter purports that there are sociological environments, interactions and theoretical reasons as to why some juveniles, as they develop and mature in life, transform from being law abiding juveniles into law breaking juvenile...

Chapter 11

Minorities in the Criminal Courts Adjudication: Perceptions of Fairness and Equality of Treatment (pages 239-253)

Ron Ousley

The following chapter addresses disparities shared by minority racial populations in the United States regarding how the public's perception of minority groups directly impact the outcome of the adjudication process in American...

Chapter 12

Migrants and Effective Legal Representation in Criminal Cases via Legal Aid Systems (pages 254-273)

Demetra F. Sorvatzioti

The European countries are obliged to fulfill the provisions of the European Convention on human rights regarding the protection of the accused rights' and ensuring the principle of fair trial. Nowadays, because of the economic...

Chapter 13

The Mass Incarceration of Undocumented Latinos/as in the Prison-Immigration Industrial Complex: The Collateral Consequences (pages 1-22)

Roberto Jose Velasquez

In this chapter, the authors discuss the current mass incarceration of Latinos/as in the United States. While Latinos/as have always been overrepresented in the criminal justice system, especially in relation to their population...

Chapter 14

Exploring the Complexities Associated to Victimization: Addressing Media Sensationalism and Race (pages 296-311)

Erica Hutton

The following chapter addresses both the presence and complexities that are associated to the reports of victimization within the media in direct correlation to the element of how racial disparities sensationalize certain incidents...

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