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Racial Profiling: They Said It Was Against the Law!

Keywords: race , racial profiling , discrimination , prediction , risk classification

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This article examines the media frames and legislative responses of eighteen states in the United States to the use of racial profiling and a technology of modern policing. Racial profiling is characterized as a troubled technology because of the way in which the use of racial identification as an index of criminality contributes to the cumulative disadvantage that shapes the life chances of African Americans. An analysis of media coverage of legislative debates enables an assessment of the extent to which the technology of racial profiling is characterized as an immoral act of discrimination that should be made illegal across the United States. The dominant policy frame is one of uncertainty and caution. The strategic use of quotation marks around references to racial profiling in some newspapers reflects unwillingness on the part of the news media to even acknowledge the existence of a problem or a basis for concern. The analysis of statutes and newspaper discourse reveals the ways in which particular arguments and rationales are associated with readily identified group interests opposed to, or in support of, the use of racial profiling. The article concludes that many in the public believe that race can be used as an index of criminality. The public does not understand that the use of race as a predictor of risk, ironically, tends to amplify the risks to the operation of the criminal justice system. *************** Cet article examine les cadrages médiatiques et la réponse législative de dix-huit états américains en matière de l’utilisation du profilage racial ainsi qu’une technologie moderne de maintien de l’ordre. La technologie du profilage racial est per ue comme problématique à cause de son utilisation de traits raciaux comme indices de criminalité, ce qui contribue à augmenter les obstacles que doivent surmonter les Afro-Américaines et Afro-Américains afin de réussir dans la vie. Une analyse de la couverture médiatique des débats législatifs permet d’évaluer dans quelle mesure la technologie du profilage racial est considérée comme un acte discriminatoire immoral que l’on devrait déclarer illégal aux états-Unis. La principale orientation politique en la matière est l’incertitude et la prudence. L’insertion entre guillemets des références au profilage racial dans certains quotidiens dénote le manque de volonté des médias d’information de même reconna tre qu’il y a là un problème dont il faut se préoccuper. L’analyse de la législation et du discours médiatique révèle comment les arguments et les justifications relativement à l’utilisation du prof

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