(Download) Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
| #262578 in Books | University Of Chicago Press | 2006-12-15 | 2006-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.02 | File Name: 0226316149 | 264 pages |
||11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Harcourt 'Against Prediction'|By Tim Salinger|Harcourt is at the forefront of the reaction to the "actuarial model" of policing -- a model first described in Feeley and Simon's famous 1992 article 'The New Penology.' This model was perhaps best described in David Garland's 'Culture of Control,' though it had been heralded years before that by Michel Foucault and the scholar||"Bernard Harcourt has never had an uninteresting thought, or made an argument that does not provoke or engage or delight or enlighten—or do all of those things simultaneously."|| (Malcolm Gladwell 2006-08-28)
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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 re...
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