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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... crime. Though this may sound counterintuitive, it is surprisingly correct: the use of probabilistic methods may increase the overall amount of targeted crime depending on the relative responsiveness of the profiled individuals (in ...
... crime and punishment. To be sure, the force of these arguments will resonate differently in different punishment and ... overall amount of criminal activity in society. The likely increase in drug and other offending among whites ...
... criminal record—may be just as troubling. All these different dimensions will impact the force of the argument ... overall amount of crime in society where the targeted population is less responsive to policing. Naturally, random ...
... overall amount of crime in society as a whole because the increase in crime by accountants and bankers would exceed the decrease in crime by drywall contractors and car dealers. In raw numbers, the effect of the profiling will be ...
... overall amount of crime in society. The reason is that profiling the target group will reduce their offending rate but will increase the offending rate of the nonprofiled group. Because of the different elasticities and the fact that ...
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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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