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Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age /

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Huvudskapare: Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Ämnen:
Racial profiling in law enforcement > United States.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of > United States.
Law enforcement > United States > Statistical methods.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.

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