Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes by Schauer, Frederick F.
Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes by Schauer, Frederick F.

Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

This book employs a careful, rigorous, yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can...
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Author: Frederick F. Schauer
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Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes by Schauer, Frederick F.

Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

CHF 56.02
Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes by Schauer, Frederick F.

Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

CHF 56.02
Author: Frederick F. Schauer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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. When the law "thinks like an actuary"--makes decisions about groups based on averages--the public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand, profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. And many stereotypes are self-fulfilling, while others are simply spurious. How, then, can we decide which stereotypes are accurate, which are distortions, which can be applied fairly, and which will result in unfair stigmatization?

These decisions must rely not only on statistical and empirical accuracy, but also on morality. Even statistically sound generalizations may sometimes have to yield to the demands of justice. But broad judgments are not always or even usually immoral, and we should not always dismiss them because of an instinctive aversion to stereotypes. 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.

Author: Frederick F. Schauer
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780674021181

About the Author
Schauer, Frederick: - Frederick Schauer is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and the author of Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry; Playing by the Rules; Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes; Thinking Like a Lawyer; and The Force of Law. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University for twenty years, and was a founding editor of the journal Legal Theory.
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