Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial AgeUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. sep. 2008 - 250 sider From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they’re a more cost-effective way to fight crime. |
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... associated with one or more group traits, in order (1) to predict past, present or future criminal behavior and (2) to administer a criminal justice outcome. [From actuarial tables in the insurance industry used to predict mortality ...
... associated with a 5-year sex offense recidivism rate of 37 percent and a 10-year sex offense recidivism rate of 55 percent.”30 The RRASOR is just one among a rash of new actuarial instruments that are intended to predict future sexual ...
... associated with a group or with one or more group traits and, on the basis of those correlations, to predict the past, present, or future criminal behavior of a particular person and to administer a criminal justice outcome for that ...
... associated with individualized decision making or the importance of paying attention to the particular—it is not about the particular versus the general. Others, indeed, have engaged the debate at this level. Barbara Underwood, in her ...
... associated with conviction of a crime. In terms of deterrence, the case of parole is in fact the perfect illustration of increasing or decreasing the cost of crime. The parole determination affects the length of the expected prison ...
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Part I The Rise of the Actuarial Paradigm | 39 |
Part II The Critique of Actuarial Methods | 109 |
Part III Toward a More General Theory of Punishing and Policing | 193 |
Acknowledgments | 241 |
Appendix A | 245 |
Appendix B | 261 |
Notes | 267 |
References | 311 |
Index | 331 |
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