TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harcourt,Bernard E.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Against prediction: profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age 
AV  - HV7936.R3 H37 2007eb
U1  - 363.2/30890973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Racial profiling in law enforcement
KW  - United States
KW  - Criminal behavior, Prediction of
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10266063
ER  -