Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age by B.E. Harcourt
By David V. Canter. 2008
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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions
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- Prediction-Based Decisions and Fairness: A Catalogue of Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions (2018, background): “For example, Harcourt shows that if the population changes their behavior in response to changing decision probabilities, prediction-based decisions can backfire and diminish social welfare [52].”
- Towards Critical Data Studies: Charting and Unpacking Data Assemblages and Their Work (2014, background): “precedes them, seeking to police behaviours that may never occur (Stalder 2002; Harcourt 2006).”
- Development of the California Static Risk Assessment (CSRA): Recidivism Risk Prediction in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (2013, background): “Some research indicates that stigmatization can occur as part of the process of targeting higher risk offenders; it is possible that classifying people as more dangerous or as more likely to recidivate might cause them to live up to this level of dangerousness (Harcourt 2007).”
- Statistical Procedures for Forecasting Criminal Behavior (2013, unknown): “about “actuarial methods” dating from at least the time when sentencing guidelines first became popular (Messinger and Berk, 1987; Feely and Simon, 1994), and more recent discussions about the role of race have introduced an important overlay (Harcourt, 2007; Berk, 2009).”
- A Primer on Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments (2016, background): “…Department of Criminology Department of Statistics University of Pennsylvania Introduction There are widespread concerns about fairness when actuarial risk assessments are used to inform criminal justice decisions (Harcourt, 2008; Tonrey, 2014; Starr, 2014; Berk and Hyatt, 2015, Crawford, 2016).”