Stop and Frisk under Suspicion: Racial Profiling and Judicial Scrutiny of Police Action Based on Terry V. Ohio and Floyd V. City of New York

Stop and Frisk under Suspicion: Racial Profiling and Judicial Scrutiny of Police Action Based on Terry V. Ohio and Floyd V. City of New York

The paper analyses racial profiling in stop and frisk based on Terry v. Ohio (1968) and Floyd v. City of New York (2013). The deffense of stop and frisk as a tool of crime repression and of war on drugs is debated. Floyd ruling is then analysed, in which it was acknowledged that NYPD has implemented...

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Main Author: Gisela Aguiar Wanderley
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2016-10-01
Series:Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais
Subjects:
Abordagem policial, Filtragem racial, Racismo institucional, Aplicação seletiva da lei, Controle judicial da atividade policial, Criminalização secundária
Online Access:http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistacpc/article/view/291

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