Against Prediction - Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
- Publisher's listprice GBP 45.50
-
21 737 Ft (20 702 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 2 174 Ft off)
- Discounted price 19 563 Ft (18 632 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
21 737 Ft
Availability
Out of print
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date of Publication 30 August 2007
- ISBN 9780226316130
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 233x162x29 mm
- Weight 584 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Long description:
Bernard E. Harcourt challenges this growing reliance on actuarial methods. These prediction tools he demonstrates may in fact "increase" the overall amount of crime in society depending on the relative responsiveness of the profiled populations to heightened security. They may also aggravate the difficulties that minorities already have obtaining work education and a better quality of life--thus perpetuating the pattern of criminal behavior. Ultimately Harcourt shows how the perceived success of actuarial methods has begun to distort our very conception of just punishment and to obscure alternate visions of social order. In place of the actuarial he proposes instead a turn to randomization in punishment and policing. The presumption Harcourt concludes should be "against prediction. ""
More
