Assessing Pretrial Risk without a Defendant Interview

By Marie VonNostrand Christopher Lowenkamp. 2013

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Citations in the corpus

• Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, methodology): “used at arraignment to determine whether defendants should be released pretrial and whether bail should be required [68].”
• Sacrificing Accuracy for Transparency in Recidivism Risk Assessment: The Impact of Classification Method on Predictive Performance (2016, methodology): “…form of the Burgess method is still widely used across various stages of the criminal justice system, such as the Kentucky Pretrial Risk Assessment (VanNostrand & Lowenkamp, 2013), the Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) (Latessa, Smith, Lemke, Makarios, & Lowenkamp, 2009), the Level of Service…”