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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... incarceration, parole, or other forms of supervision and punishment. Simply put, the profiled population becomes an even larger proportion of the carceral population—larger in relation to its representation among actual offenders—than ...
... incarceration for a designated group of drug offenders convicted after November 1, 2003.1 Other states faced with similar problems, such as Louisiana and Alabama, have enacted early-release legislation. Those statutes make outright ...
... of the lowest risk, incarceration bound, drug and property offenders for placement in alternative (nonprison) sanctions.” 18 After examining a random sample of more than two thousand drug, fraud, and larceny cases, 10 chapter one.
... incarceration, and treatment record. In lesser sexual assault cases (including, for instance, molestation, but excluding “bestiality, bigamy, non-forcible sodomy, and prostitution”), a separate grid asks one additional question ...
... incarceration in 75 percent of the cases—resulting in a prison sentence rather than probation.26 Virginia has also led the country in the area of civil commitment of “sexually violent predators”—a term of art in today's criminal justice ...
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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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