A much-needed referral work on among the most popular subjects today– profiling and its use and abuse by legal and police authorities. Consists of a chronology of crucial events in American criminal justice including discussions of essential lawsuit, developments in criminal treatment, the development of sentencing guidelines, civil liberties turning points, and examples of court-sanctioned profiling such as the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II Includes short biographies of key people such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Douglas, Jesse Jackson, and Janet Reno
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