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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.ISBN:
  • 0226316130 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226316130 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226316149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780226316147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.2/308900973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV7936.R3 H37 2007
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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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