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Predictive Power at What Cost? Economic and Racial Justice of Data-Driven Algorithms

Jabri, Ranae - 2021

This paper studies how algorithms use variables to maximize predictive power at the cost of group equity. Group inequity arises if variables enlarge disparities in risk scores across groups. I develop a framework to examine a recidivism risk assessment tool using risk score and novel pretrial...

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Do psychopathic traits predict criminal activity?

Mancino, M. Antonella; Attia, Tarek - In: Journal of applied economics 25 (2022) 1, pp. 1260-1293

predictor of crime. We investigate the effect of psychopathy on crime using a unique panel dataset of young offenders, which … find that psychopathy is an important predictor of crime. We show that the effect is two times larger (and closer to usual … comprehensive data on individual heterogeneity to isolate the effect of psychopathy on crime from the effect of confounding factors …

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Economic activity by race

Mboup, Fatima - 2023

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The Predictability of DOJ Cartel Fines

Connor, John M. - 2016

For criminal violations of the Sherman Act, although guided by federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. Department of Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly always determinative. In this paper, we analyze the...

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Law and the Emotions : The Problems of Affective Forecasting

Blumenthal, Jeremy A. - 2005

Legal scholarship on behavioralism and the implications of cognitive biases for the law is flourishing. In parallel with the rise of such commentary, legal scholars have begun to discuss the role of the emotions in legal discourse. Discussion turns on the appropriateness of various emotions for...

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