Scholarship is divided over whether youth from marginalized populations are stopped and
searched by police primarily due to their illegal behaviours (functionalism), marginalized …

Renewed interest has occurred in the United States around racially biased policing.
Unfortunately, little is known about the effects of neighborhood social context on black …

Recent deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police and the creation of the protest
movement Black Lives Matter has brought public attention to claims of racial profiling and …

Police stops and other forms of intense policing practices involve a disproportionate number
of minority persons, particularly youth. While studies have shown that these encounters are …

Our study investigated racial profiling of Black youth in Toronto and linked this racial profiling
to urban disadvantage theory, which highlights neighbourhood-level processes. Our …

The volatile political environment that surrounds the issue of “racial profiling” has led local
and state police agencies across the nation to start collecting information about traffic and …

Racial profiling has become one of the most controversial issues facing the Canadian
criminal justice system. In a recent article, Thomas Gabor dismisses much of the evidence of …

Criminologists have long reported the existence of racial disparity in the criminal justice
system, but the important question is why. While some argue that observed differences are a …

Criminologists agree the race disparity in arrests cannot be fully explained by differences in
criminal behavior. The authors examine social environment factors that may lead to racial …

For many years, criminologists have directed research efforts at questions involving race
and policing. And for just as many years, many criminal justice professionals-principally …