Predictive modeling is increasingly being employed to assist human decision-makers. One
purported advantage of replacing or augmenting human judgment with computer models in …

Predictive modeling is increasingly being employed to assist human decision-makers. One
purported advantage of replacing human judgment with computer models in high stakes …

Risk assessment tools are widely used around the country to inform decision making within
the criminal justice system. Recently, considerable attention has been devoted to the …

Although risk assessment has increasingly been used as a tool to help reform the criminal
justice system, some stakeholders are adamantly opposed to using algorithms. The principal …

This paper addresses the role of race in forecasts of failure on probation or parole. Failure is
defined as committing a homicide or attempted homicide or being the victim of a homicide or …

As recent and historical events attest, racial and ethnic disparities are widely engrained into
the justice system. Recently, scholars and policymakers have raised concerns that risk …

Objectives To test the liberation hypothesis in a judicial context unconstrained by sentencing
guidelines. Methods We examined cross-sectional sentencing data (n= 17,671) using a …

In our current society, secret algorithms make important decisions about individuals. There
has been substantial discussion about whether these algorithms are unfair to groups of …

Increasing numbers of decisions about everyday life are made using algorithms. By
algorithms we mean predictive models (decision rules) captured from historical data using …

Notes. This figure plots race-specific release rates for the 268 judges in our sample against
rates of predicted pretrial misconduct among the set of released defendants. Predicted …