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Against prediction : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / Bernard E. Harcourt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
- Racial profiling in law enforcement.
- Criminal behavior, Prediction of--United States.
- Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
- Law enforcement--United States--Statistical methods.
- Law enforcement.
- Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.
- Discrimination in law enforcement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226315997 (electronic bk.)
- 0226315991 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90104116660
- 9780226316147
- 9780226316130
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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