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Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (376 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674043244
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Profiles, Probabilities, and StereotypesDDC classification:
  • 303.3/85
LOC classification:
  • HM1096
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Painting with a Broad Brush -- 1. In Training with the Greeks -- 2. Pit Bulls, Golden Retrievers, and OtherDangerous Dogs -- 3. A Ride on the Blue Bus -- 4. Eighty-Year-Old Pilotsand Twelve-Year-Old Voters -- 5. The Women of the Virginia Military Institute -- 6. The Profilers -- 7. The Usual Suspects -- 8. Two Cheers for Procrustes -- 9. Ships with Altered Names -- 10. The Generality of Law -- 11. Generality, Community,and the Wars of the Roqueforts -- Coda: From the Justice of Generalityto the Generality of Justice -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: When the law makes decisions about groups based on averages, the public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand, profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. As Schauer argues, there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Painting with a Broad Brush -- 1. In Training with the Greeks -- 2. Pit Bulls, Golden Retrievers, and OtherDangerous Dogs -- 3. A Ride on the Blue Bus -- 4. Eighty-Year-Old Pilotsand Twelve-Year-Old Voters -- 5. The Women of the Virginia Military Institute -- 6. The Profilers -- 7. The Usual Suspects -- 8. Two Cheers for Procrustes -- 9. Ships with Altered Names -- 10. The Generality of Law -- 11. Generality, Community,and the Wars of the Roqueforts -- Coda: From the Justice of Generalityto the Generality of Justice -- Notes -- Index.

When the law makes decisions about groups based on averages, the public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand, profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. As Schauer argues, there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice.

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