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Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Against Prediction Profiling Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they?re a more cost-effect...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226316130
ISBN-10: 0226316130
Publication Date: 12/15/2006
Pages: 264
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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