Research Proposal

Research Proposal

Introduction

The topic that I have chosen for the research is racial profiling. This is one of the most widely discussed topics in the criminal justice system today. Racial profiling, ethnic profiling or racist profiling refers to the actions of police, security, and immigration and customs officials if it is based on general criteria such as race, ethnicity, religion, and national origin of a person. Critics demand that suspicion should be based only on the behavior of individuals and on objective evidence. The racial profiling is an act of institutional racism. The term comes from the American criminology (Walker, Spohn ...