Against Prediction

Name: Against Prediction
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226316147
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Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

Autor: Bernard E. Harcourt

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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From routine security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial meth...

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Autor

Bernard E. Harcourt

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2006

Pagini

264

EAN

9780226316147

ISBN

0226316149

Enbook ID

04545601

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

536

Dimensiuni

153 x 231 x 23

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From routine security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they're a more cost-effective way to fight crime. In "Against Prediction," Bernard E. Harcourt challenges this growing reliance on actuarial methods. These prediction tools, he demonstrates, may in fact "increase" the overall amount of crime in society, depending on the relative responsiveness of the profiled populations to heightened security. They may also aggravate the difficulties that minorities already have obtaining work, education, and a better quality of life--thus perpetuating the pattern of criminal behavior. Ultimately, Harcourt shows how the perceived success of actuarial methods has begun to distort our very conception of just punishment and to obscure alternate visions of social order. In place of the actuarial, he proposes instead a turn to randomization in punishment and policing. The presumption, Harcourt concludes, should be "against prediction."

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