The salience of skin tone: effects on the exercise of police enforcement authority

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 993-1010

  White, Karletta M ^a  

^a GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blacks; Latinos; police contact; race; racial profiling; skin tone

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; LATINO PEOPLE; POLICE FORCE; RACIAL DISPARITY; SKIN;

EID: 84924277945     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.952752     Document Type: Article

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