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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... contexts. They are at their strongest in cases like the racial profiling of African American and Hispanic drivers on the nation's highways—for several reasons. First, given the likely differentials in offending rates and responsiveness ...
... context, randomization is simple: law enforcement should randomly sample IRS tax filings for audits or use numerical sequencing for consensual car searches on the highway. In the sentencing area, randomization means something quite ...
... context is visually dramatic, as shown in figure 1.1, which traces the historical use of such instruments by state parole authorities over the past hundred years. Illinois alone accounted for the only use of an actuarial instrument ...
... context of nonviolent offenders who could be diverted from the prison system at low risk. Specifically, the commission was asked to “study the feasibility of using an empirically based risk assessment instrument to select 25% of the ...
... contexts, including the increased popularity of selective incapacitation, use of risk assessment for setting bail, predictions of future dangerousness in capital sentencing, and the notorious three-strikes laws passed in California and ...
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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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