Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / [electronic resource] :
Bernard E. Harcourt.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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.
Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States. Criminal behavior, Prediction of--United States. Law enforcement--Statistical methods.--United States