The Racial Profile: Governing Race through Knowledge Production (Research Note)

Canadian Journal of Law and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-167

  Murdocca, Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 34247660847     PISSN: 08293201     EISSN: 19110227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0829320100008176     Document Type: Article

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2. Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 2004, Volume 19, no. 2, pp. 153–167
3. N. Rose, “Governing ‘Advanced’ Liberal Democracies” in Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose, eds. Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neoliberalism and Rationalities of Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) 37 at 45.
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7. For example, Lewis argues that through various practices, such as racial profiling, “the police demarcate boundaries between those with greater or lesser propensities to criminality (and) greater or lesser degrees of pathology” (Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning). See G. Lewis, “Configuring the Terrain: Governmentality, Racialized Population and Social Work” in Race,’ Gender, Social Welfare: Encounters in a Postcolonial Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).
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14. While this paper focuses on two sets of documents, the debate about racial profiling in Toronto has resulted in the publication and production of additional documents including the Ontario Human Rights Commission report Paying the Price: the Human Cost of Racial Profiling, British Journal of Sociology 4.
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