Actuarial Sentencing: An “Unsettled” Proposition

Hannah‐Moffat, Kelly

doi:10.1080/07418825.2012.682603

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“…For example, see Harcourt () and Hannah‐Moffat (). Both authors raised important questions about the potential negative side effects of using formal risk‐assessment tools.…”

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Is There Any Logic to Using Logit

Bushway

2013

Criminology & Public Policy

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“…For example, see Harcourt () and Hannah‐Moffat (). Both authors raised important questions about the potential negative side effects of using formal risk‐assessment tools.…”

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Is There Any Logic to Using Logit

Bushway

2013

Criminology & Public Policy

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“…12 Judges and practitioners who administer these tools share concerns about bias and the suitability of prioritizing risk assessments. For these reasons, many deliberately manipulated risk scores by altering the scores and weights of criteria.…”

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The Uncertainties of Risk Assessment

Hannah‐Moffat

2015

Federal Sentencing Reporter

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“…The U.S. Justice Department's National Institute of Corrections now encourages the use of risk and need assessments at every stage of the criminal justice process (Angwin et al, ). Currently, while only a number of jurisdictions use risk assessments to inform sentencing, a number of states are moving forward with or considering the implementation of “smart sentencing” and “evidence‐based” sentences that utilize risk assessment instruments (Ewing, ; Hannah‐Moffat, ; Kehl et al, ). Further, a number of jurisdictions are beginning to use or are considering the use of risk assessment instruments to inform pretrial release decisions and amend (or abolish) money‐based bail practices (Hannah‐Moffat & Maurutto, ; Stevenson, ).…”

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Risk and punishment: The recent history and uncertain future of actuarial, algorithmic, and “evidence‐based” penal techniques

Werth

2019

Sociology Compass

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In recent decades, risk prediction has proliferated in the penal realm. Risk instruments currently guide an array of correctional decisions—such as participation in diversion programs, the provision of correctional services, and probation and parole supervision levels—and are being increasingly utilized or considered in pretrial detention and criminal sentencing. This article reviews empirical and theoretical accounts of the proliferation and effects of risk in the penal realm and also reflects on ongoing debates about the promises and perils of risk. Risk techniques have impacted the practices, discourses, and logics of punishment. Yet they have not triggered the abandonment of rehabilitative approaches (or retributive ones), nor have they replaced human judgment with a rationalized utopia or iron cage. This article also offers several interventions that complicate and further our understandings of risk. First, it highlights the complex entanglements between, on the one hand, actuarial and algorithmic risk instruments and, on the other, subjective, moral, and affective methods of evaluation. Second, it calls for increased attention to the performative effects of risk technologies: to the ways in which assessments not only report on but also create and alter the social world. The article concludes by reflecting on emerging topics and directions for future research.

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Actuarial Sentencing: An “Unsettled” Proposition

Cited by 112 publications

References 58 publications

Is There Any Logic to Using Logit

Is There Any Logic to Using Logit

The Uncertainties of Risk Assessment

Risk and punishment: The recent history and uncertain future of actuarial, algorithmic, and “evidence‐based” penal techniques

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