Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

by Bernard E. Harcourt

From routine 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-effective way to fight crime.

In Against Prediction, Bernard E. Harcourt challenges this growing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226316149
• ISBN13: 9780226316147
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"