Risk Assessment in sentencing and corrections
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Predictive Bias and Disparate Impact Jennifer
* The views expressed in this article are those of the authors alone and do not reflect the official position of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Lowenkamp specifically advises against using the PCRA to inform front-end sentencing decisions or back-end decisions about release without first conducting research on its use in these contexts, given that the PCRA was not designed for th...
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