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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... Random sampling, it turns out, is the only way to achieve a carceral population that reffects the actual offending population. It is thus the only way to fulfill a central moral intuition regarding just punishment, namely, that ...
... 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.
... random sample of 579 felony sex-offenders released from prison between 1990 and 1993, the commission reviewed narrative accounts in pre- and postsentence investigation reports, rap sheets, criminal background records, and other ...
... random searches, or random audits, or random policing. Barring randomization, our results will be distorted. What the ratchet effect does is to disproportionately distribute criminal records and criminal justice contacts, which has ...
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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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