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The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 32:276-290
The Base Expectancy Score, developed in the early 196Os, continued a tradition of practical behauioural prediction pioneered by Burgess, the Gluecks, Mannheim and Wilkins, and others. We provide a brief historical ouerview of this tradition and of th
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Crime & Delinquency. 52:178-200
Statistically based risk assessment devices are widely used in criminal justice settings. Their promise remains largely unfulfilled, however, because assumptions and premises requisite to their development and application are routinely ignored and/or
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Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 33:49-69
Risk dimensions used in guidelines systems have been implicated as contributing to racial (and gender) disproportionalities in America's prison and jail populations. Developers of some systems dealt with invidious risk predictors by purposely ignorin
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Criminal Justice and Behavior. 9:259-272
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Crime and Justice. 8:387-416
Property offenders construct cognitive images of the physical environment to decide where to commit crimes. At least three levels of target selection occur-neighborhoods, or regions; street blocks; and specific sites. Information on the physical char
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Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 7:91-106
Measures of seriousness of the conviction offense and prior criminal record are strong correlates of sentences. This is consistent with a desert orientation to sentencing. Competing sentencing theories emphasize concepts of risk and incapacitation, b
Publikováno v:
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 478:135-149
Recent sentencing proposals for the selective incapacitation of criminal offenders have generated a great deal of enthusiasm and controversy. The concept has been greeted enthusiastically because it promises simultaneously to decrease the crime rate
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Violence and Victims. 3:247-262
Retributive and utilitarian goals for criminal justice decisions are in conflict. In part, this is because the retributive aim rejects prediction, while all utilitarian aims require it. In the context of this debate, we review research concerning the
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Violence and Victims. 3:303-324
The paper suggests that the conventional wisdoms that we cannot and should not predict violence are wrong. We can predict violence, and we should predict violence. It is the unfortunate case, however, that we cannot do it very well, and this is true