Risk as a Proxy for Race: The Dangers of Risk Assessment Risk as a Proxy for Race: The Dangers of Risk Assessment

By Seville Sulzbacher

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5. Karthik Dinakar
6. Joichi Ito
7. Jonathan L. Zittrain
8. Alexandra Chouldechova

Citations in the corpus

• Interventions over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment (2017, background): “Scholars have argued that prediction-oriented risk assessments produce a “ratchet effect” on profiled populations, because they fail to take into consideration the criminogenic nature of the criminal justice system itself [33, 39].”
• Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing. (2016, background): “Frase (2014) and Harcourt (2015) have called criminal history a proxy for risk.”