Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age Bernard E. Harcourt.
Detalles de publicación: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007.Descripción: viii, 336 p. ill. 24 cmISBN:- 0226316130 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226316130 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226316149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226316147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.2/30890973 22
- HV 7936 .R3 H37 2007
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From random 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.
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.
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- Prologue(p. 1)
- Chapter 1 Actuarial Methods in the Criminal Law(p. 7)
- I The Rise of the Actuarial Paradigm(p. 39)
- Chapter 2 Ernest W. Burgess and Parole Prediction(p. 47)
- Chapter 3 The Proliferation of Actuarial Methods in Punishing and Policing(p. 77)
- II The Critique of Actuarial Methods(p. 109)
- Chapter 4 The Mathematics of Actuarial Prediction: The Illusion of Efficiency(p. 111)
- Chapter 5 The Ratchet Effect: An Overlooked Social Cost(p. 145)
- Chapter 6 The Pull of Prediction: Distorting Our Conceptions of Just Punishment(p. 173)
- III Toward a More General Theory of Punishing and Policing(p. 193)
- Chapter 7 A Case Study on Racial Profiling(p. 195)
- Chapter 8 Shades of Gray(p. 215)
- Chapter 9 The Virtues of Randomization(p. 237)
- Acknowledgments(p. 241)
- Appendix A Retracing the Parole-Prediction Debate and Literature(p. 245)
- Appendix B Mathematical Proofs Regarding the Economic Model of Racial Profiling(p. 261)
- Notes(p. 267)
- References(p. 311)
- Index(p. 331)
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Bernard E. Harcourt is professor of law and director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing and Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy .