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Risk Assessment Software: Biased and No Better Than Human Behavior Prediction
Loaded on July 20, 2018
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Criminal Legal News
August, 2018, page 18
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Databases,
Crime Labs,
Release and Reentry.
Location:
United States of America.
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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