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Risk Assessment Software: Biased and No Better Than Human Behavior Prediction

by Christopher Zoukis

Risk assessment software is all the rage in criminal justice circles. Programs such as COMPAS — Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions — are hailed as the ideal method for answering the all-important question: Will a given individual reoffend?

Algorithms and data, after all, are (supposedly) ...

 

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