profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age /
Bernard E. Harcourt
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007
viii, 336 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
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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Criminal behavior, Prediction of-- United States
Law enforcement-- United States-- Statistical methods
Racial profiling in law enforcement-- United States