Racial Profiling And Its Impact On Ethics, Diversity, And Equality In Criminal Justice System

Racial Profiling and its Impact on Ethics, Diversity, and Equality in Criminal Justice SystemRacial Profiling and its Impact on Ethics, Diversity, and Equality in Criminal Justice System Introduction Sociologists, particularly criminologists, often refer to the reality that contemporary individuals live in a diverse range of communities. The term "diversity" has come to refer to issues of race/ethnicity, gender, religion, and culture in academic, employment, and public policy contexts (Schilliger, 2020). While the term "diversity" is employed in certain contexts, criminology employs a logic of distinction, constructing a succession of others who are separate from modernity's customary subject. Even though diversity is mostly unexplored and has had little impact on criminological theory, it is often employed in criminology as a descriptive term or as a "legitimate" notion. For decades, the binary split of diversity in criminology has been young/adult, poor/affluent, male/female, and, of course, black/white. The fact of diversity has gotten less attention, as have its consequences for criminalization, crime prevention, punishment, and exclusion (Hosein, 2018). Concerns have been expressed in the criminal justice system throughout the prior two decades about police practices such as racial profiling. Prejudice and racial profiling accusations are becoming more