Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed … criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, risk assessment tools … can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison complex. The book explains how risk …

coordination fallacy, a violation of monotonicity whereby the probability weight placed on a symmetric coordination profile of the … coordination profile. …