Against prediction [electronic resource] : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / Bernard E. Harcourt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: viii, 336 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.2/30890973 22
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  • HV7936.R3 H37 2007eb
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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.
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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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