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Racial Profiling, Anti-Black Racism, Black Resistance and the Policing of Young Londoners

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  • Tim Head
  • Emmanuel Onapa
  • Dawud Smith
  • Infinity Agbetu

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In this article, drawing on findings from an ethnographic study (2018–21) and a Participatory Action Research project in a London Borough, we explore the nature, impact, and forms of resistance to, police racial profiling. Centring accounts of ‘policed’ Black young Londoners we develop a reconceptualization of racial profiling in sociological terms as a dynamic process, understood as both didactic and dialogic; ‘didactic’ given the ways that policed individuals are compelled, uncomfortably, to ‘learn’ about their place in the social formation through profiling interactions; and ‘dialogic’ given the way that profiling instigates a series of claims and counterclaims whereby racist tropes and categorizations can be consolidated, contested and/or resisted as part of an ongoing process of cultural production.

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  • Tim Head & Emmanuel Onapa & Dawud Smith & Infinity Agbetu, 2026. "Racial Profiling, Anti-Black Racism, Black Resistance and the Policing of Young Londoners," The British Journal of Criminology, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, vol. 66(1), pages 92-110.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:crimin:v:66:y:2026:i:1:p:92-110.
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