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A new approach to making everyday criminal justice terms accessible A useful reference work for faculty and students, criminal justice professionals, writers, and anyone else interested in criminal justice and criminology, The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice, Second Edition, is an excellent, wide-ranging resource with clear definitions for over 3,000 key criminal justice terms. Often going beyond simply definitions, the dictionary places the entries in a meaningful context, connecting the definitions with other concepts. The dictionary uniquely presents common misperceptions for selected terms, along with additional relevant information to clarify a term’s use or derivation.
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Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN) a network of social scientists interested in the intersection of race, crime, and justice. The RDCJN also seeks to increase participation of minorities in this area of research.
racial justice ensuring rights to racial groups that historically have been subjected to discrimination.
racial profiling the practice by law enforcement officials of stopping minorities when no offense has been committed or no reasonable suspicion exists. Racial profiling has garnered much attention, especially with the admission by prominent Black celebrities that they had been the object of such police behaviors. See driving while Black.
racist one who believes in the superiority of a particular race and hates members of specific racial, ethnic, or religious groups. See Aryan Nations, hate crime, Ku Klux ...