Preferred term
RACIAL PROFILING
Broader concept
Used for
- ETHNIC PROFILING
Scope note
- Practice by police and other law enforcement officers of relying, to any degree, on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin as the basis for subjecting persons to investigatory activities or for determining whether an individual is engaged in criminal activity
In other languages
Arabic
Chinese
French
Russian
URI
http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1005311