Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Actuarial methods in the criminal law
- The rise of the actuarial paradigm
- Ernest W. Burgess and parole prediction
- The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing
- The critique of actuarial methods
- The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency
- The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost
- The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment
- Toward a more general theory of punishing and policing
- A case study on racial profiling
- Shades of gray
- The virtues of randomization.