Against prediction : profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / Bernard E. Harcourt.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States.

Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- United States.

Law enforcement -- Statistical methods -- United States.

1. Actuarial methods in the criminal law

2. Ernest W. Burgess and parole prediction

3. The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing

4. The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency

5. The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost

6. The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment

7. A case study on racial profiling

8. Shades of gray

9. The virtues of randomization.

In today's world, actuarial methods are being employed more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. The author of this book challenges the growing reliance on actuarial methods and proposes a turn to randomisation in punishment and policing.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-329) and index.

0226316149

9780226316147

viii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm