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

Actuarial methods in the criminal lawThe 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 r...

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1. Verfasser: Harcourt, Bernard E. (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Chicago, London The University of Chicago Press 2007
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Zusammenfassung:Actuarial methods in the criminal lawThe 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.
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
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 311-329
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Beschreibung:viii, 336 Seiten
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ISBN:0226316130
0-226-31613-0
0226316149
0-226-31614-9
9780226316130
978-0-226-31613-0
9780226316147
978-0-226-31614-7