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You will commit a crime in the future. Inside the new science of predicting violence. And link to "Risk as a Proxy for Race' by Bernard Harcourt

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

You will commit a crime in the future Inside the new science of predicting violence By Leon Neyfakh February 20, 2011 Boston Globe The ability to predict what someone will do in the future would be a seriously handy superpower. And it?s one that companies like Netflix and Amazon, by crunching the massive trails of data most of us leave behind these days, have come pretty close to acquiring. Surely, though, there is something more ambitious to be done with our dazzling modern technology than trying to guess what kind of microwave someone?s going to want next. Something like preventing murders. It?s a seductive notion, that we could know who will and who won?t commit a crime in the future. And while it may call to mind the science-fiction world of ?Minority Report,? making judgments about people?s potential to be dangerous is in fact an essential ? and routine ? part of how the American justice system works...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).