Screen LibraryAgainst prediction：profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 336 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0226316130 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226316130 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226316149 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226316147 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D771 |
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D771.262 D771.235 |
| Call Number: | D771.235/H257 |
| Contents: |
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. |