Against prediction
Subtitle: profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age
By: Bernard E. Harcourt.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226316130; 9780226316147
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States; Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- United States; Law enforcement -- United States -- Statistical methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Actuarial methods in the criminal law; title: The rise of the actuarial paradigm; title: Ernest W. Burgess and parole prediction; title: The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing; title: The critique of actuarial methods; title: The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency; title: The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost; title: The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment; title: Toward a more general theory of punishing and policing; title: A case study on racial profiling; title: Shades of gray; title: The virtues of randomization.