SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
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Question
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Judging others by the way they look
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being racist towards another gender only
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Any police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on a person’s behavior
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Being racist on someone’s Facebook profile
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Detailed explanation-1: -Racial profiling means a law enforcement-initiated action based on an individual’s race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on the individual’s behavior or on information identifying the individual as having engaged in criminal activity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Racially biased policing occurs when law enforcement in-appropriately considers race or ethnicity in deciding with whom and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Racial Profiling” refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Profiling is the practice of attempting to understand a person or group based on general characteristics or on past behaviors. An example of profiling is a situation where a person is pulled aside for extra screening at an airport because of their race.
Detailed explanation-5: -: the act or process of extrapolating information about a person based on known traits or tendencies. consumer profiling. specifically : the act of suspecting or targeting a person on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior. racial profiling.