Misleading "Evidence" and the Misguided Attempt to Generate Racial Profiles of Criminals: Correcting Fallacies and Calculations Concerning Race and Crime in Taylor and Whitney's Analysis of Racial Profiling

Mankind Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-329

  Lynch, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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