Risky Business: Critiquing Pennsylvania’s Actuarial Risk Assessment in Sentencing
The use of statistical risk assessment tools is growing in many different areas of the criminal justice field. This Note critiques this growing trend towards using risk assessment tools during the sentencing phase. Part II of this Note will survey the differing types of risk assessment tools used...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Columbia Journal of Race and Law |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjrl/article/view/2322 |