A much-needed reference work on one of the hottest subjects today– profiling and its use and abuse by legal and police authorities. Includes a chronology of key occasions in American criminal justice consisting of conversations of key court cases, developments in criminal procedure, the development of sentencing guidelines, civil liberties turning points, and examples of court-sanctioned profiling such as the internment of Japanese Americans throughout World War II Consists of brief bios of crucial individuals such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Douglas, Jesse Jackson, and Janet Reno
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