| Description |
xiii, 359 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Painting with a Broad Brush -- 1. In Training with the Greeks -- 2. Pit Bulls, Golden Retrievers, and Other Dangerous Dogs -- 3. A Ride on the Blue Bus -- 4. Eighty-Year-Old Pilots and Twelve-Year-Old Voters -- 5. The Women of the Virginia Military Institute -- 6. The Profilers -- 7. The Usual Suspects -- 8. Two Cheers for Procrustes -- 9. Ships with Altered Names -- 10. The Generality of Law -- 11. Generality, Community, and the Wars of the Roqueforts -- Coda: From the Justice of Generality to the Generality of Justice |
| Summary |
"This book employs a careful, rigorous, yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can justly generalize about members of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies of that group. For instance, should a military academy exclude women because, on average, women are more sensitive to hazing than men? Should airlines force all pilots to retire at age sixty, even though most pilots at that age have excellent vision? Can all pit bulls be banned because of the aggressive characteristics of the breed? And, most controversially, should government and law enforcement use racial and ethnic profiling as a tool to fight crime and terrorism?" "Frederick Schauer strives to analyze and resolve these prickly questions. As Schauer argues, there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-353) and index |
| Subject |
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Decision making.
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Judgment.
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Forecasting.
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Justice.
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| LC no. |
2003048035 |
| ISBN |
0674011864 alkaline paper |
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0674011864 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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