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Against prediction : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age
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Against prediction : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age

Bernard E. Harcourt

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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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Against prediction : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age by Bernard E. Harcourt. ISBN 9780226316147. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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