Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk

by Christopher Slobogin

Book Overview

Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants and offenders, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and antithetical to the foundational tenets of criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, these tools can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108984347
• ISBN13: 9781108984348
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"