Compounding Injustice: History and Prediction in Carceral Decision-Making

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13404v1
• Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 14:51:50 GMT
• Title: Compounding Injustice: History and Prediction in Carceral Decision-Making
• Authors: Benjamin Laufer
• Abstract summary: This thesis explores how algorithmic decision-making in criminal policy can exhibit feedback effects. We find evidence of a criminogenic effect of incarceration, even controlling for existing determinants of 'criminal risk' We explore the theoretical implications of compounding effects in repeated carceral decisions.
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• Abstract: Risk assessment algorithms in criminal justice put people's lives at the discretion of a simple statistical tool. This thesis explores how algorithmic decision-making in criminal policy can exhibit feedback effects, where disadvantage accumulates among those deemed 'high risk' by the state. Evidence from Philadelphia suggests that risk - and, by extension, criminality - is not fundamental or in any way exogenous to political decision-making. A close look at the geographical and demographic properties of risk calls into question the current practice of prediction in criminal policy. Using court docket summaries from Philadelphia, we find evidence of a criminogenic effect of incarceration, even controlling for existing determinants of 'criminal risk'. With evidence that criminal treatment can influence future criminal convictions, we explore the theoretical implications of compounding effects in repeated carceral decisions.

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