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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spelling doaj-b39b49f9586345188b173a9ed582353c2020-11-24T22:25:17ZporConselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI)Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais2526-00652526-00652016-10-012111213410.26668/IndexLawJournals/2526-0065/2016.v2i1.291291Stop and Frisk under Suspicion: Racial Profiling and Judicial Scrutiny of Police Action Based on Terry V. Ohio and Floyd V. City of New YorkGisela Aguiar Wanderley0Universidade de Brasília, UnBThe 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 unreasonable and racially directed stops and frisks between 2004 and 2012. It is argued that judicial scrutiny plays a central role towards the reduction of institutional racism reproduced by police.http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistacpc/article/view/291Abordagem policial, Filtragem racial, Racismo institucional, Aplicação seletiva da lei, Controle judicial da atividade policial, Criminalização secundária
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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
Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais
Abordagem policial, Filtragem racial, Racismo institucional, Aplicação seletiva da lei, Controle judicial da atividade policial, Criminalização secundária
author_facet Gisela Aguiar Wanderley
author_sort Gisela Aguiar Wanderley
title 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
title_short 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
title_full 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
title_fullStr 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
title_full_unstemmed 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
title_sort 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
publisher Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI)
series Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais
issn 2526-0065
2526-0065
publishDate 2016-10-01
description 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 unreasonable and racially directed stops and frisks between 2004 and 2012. It is argued that judicial scrutiny plays a central role towards the reduction of institutional racism reproduced by police.
topic Abordagem policial, Filtragem racial, Racismo institucional, Aplicação seletiva da lei, Controle judicial da atividade policial, Criminalização secundária
url http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistacpc/article/view/291
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