Against prediction [electronic resource] : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / Bernard E. Harcourt.
By: Harcourt, Bernard E.
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BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: viii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States | Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- United States | Law enforcement -- United States -- Statistical methodsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.2/30890973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-329) and index.
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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