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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Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age Bernard E. Harcourt. chapter one. Actuarial. Methods. in. the. Criminal. Law. case 1. In Kansas, the sentencing commission is required by statute annually to prepare two-year ...
Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age Bernard E. Harcourt. chapter one. Actuarial. Methods. in. the. Criminal. Law. case 1. In Kansas, the sentencing commission is required by statute annually to prepare two-year ...
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... Actuarial. These four episodes reffect one of the most striking trends in law enforcement and punishment at the turn of the twenty-first century: actuarial methods have grown exponentially in the criminal justice system. Risk assessment ...
... Actuarial. These four episodes reffect one of the most striking trends in law enforcement and punishment at the turn of the twenty-first century: actuarial methods have grown exponentially in the criminal justice system. Risk assessment ...
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... actuarial methods are sometimes called “mechanical prediction.” Clinical methods, in contrast, rely on subjective expert opinion—or, more formally, “on the subjective judgment of experienced decisionmakers, who evaluate each applicant ...
... actuarial methods are sometimes called “mechanical prediction.” Clinical methods, in contrast, rely on subjective expert opinion—or, more formally, “on the subjective judgment of experienced decisionmakers, who evaluate each applicant ...
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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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actuarial methods African American analysis arrest associated assume assumptions behavior Black Burgess method carceral contacts clinical commission context convicted crime in society criminal justice criminal law criminal profiling criminal record Criminology critique Delinquency developed differential disproportionate drug drug-courier drywall economic models efficiency elasticity of offending Ernest Burgess future dangerousness Glueck group traits higher higher-offending group Hispanic hit rates Ibid Illinois incarceration increase individual inmate Journal of Criminal Knowles Laune law enforcement LSI-R marijuana minority motorists offending population offending rates offending to policing overall crime parole board parole decision Parole Prediction penology percent Persico persons police officer police searches prediction instruments prediction tool prior criminal history prison probation profiled crime punishment race racial groups racial profiling random ratchet effect Recidivism recidivists release result Risk Assessment Salient Factor Score sample search rate selective incapacitation statistical statistical discrimination targeted terrorist tion Vold white motorists
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