Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person's race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. ... Should race be used as a factor of protection, or is it an absurd action of racism/discrimination? ... Despite training to avoid discrimination, officers may still rely on cultural stereotypes and act on their perceptions of a person's characteristics (such as age, race or gender)("Racial Profiling," 2013). Racial profiling is problematic because it is a form of discrimination enacted and orga...

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Other problems also include discrimination that takes place in court due to lack of research, systems being too ready to send juveniles over to the adult system and ignoring personality traits that form patterns, in order to better help the juveniles. ...

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It is the influences of British Law on Indigenous Australians post colonialism that have led to the genocide, oppression, racial discrimination, dispossession of land, high rates of incarceration and intergenerational trauma and disadvantages that have plague the Indigenous people of Australia for far too long. ... Furthermore the commission's view is that by recognising Aboriginal customary law and providing a role of cultural authority for elders it will help solve law and order issues in Aboriginal communities (http://www.Irc.justice.wa.gov.au). here are two basic tenets of the rule of...

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