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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... parole board of the likelihood of the inmate's success if granted parole. Laune's prognasios ushered actuarial methods into the criminal law. By 1951, Ernest Burgess was recommending that the same actuarial paradigm be extended to many ...
... parole an inmate.5 In Washington state the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, assigned responsibility for determining parole eligibility for all offenders who committed their crimes prior to July 1, 1984, uses the LSI-R.6 In North ...
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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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