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Vanessa Luzzi
Professor Borrelli
Writing Assignment
Should racial and gender profiling be utilized by law
enforcement to combat terrorism in
the United States?

Racial profiling is inclusion of race in the profile of a persons considered likely to commit a particular crime or type of crime (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racialprofiling). This is done by the law to certain persons whom are most likely to commit a crime. The Patriot Act is an act where the law is allowed to invade one's privacy if there are suspicions that a certain person will do harm to this country. With this act, the law is allowed to tap into this certain person's phone line and even use surveillance to watch their every move. The three theories that I will use to decide whether racial and gender profiling should be utilized by law are cultural deviance theory, social process theory and conflict theory.
Cultural deviance theory is a branch of social structure theory that sees strain and social......

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