Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press
2007.
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991003329419708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of 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.
