Sublime

A tool that is calibrated, she writes, “cannot have equal false positive and negative rates across groups, when the recidivism prevalence differs across those groups.”

The result is that we criminalize poverty, believing all the while that our tools are not only scientific but fair.

Consumer Federation of America,

Professionals quickly realized that they could count on her for high-quality light curves.

Jim Deatherage,

What the training data captures is not reoffense, but rather rearrest and reconviction

Psychiatric drugs are prescribed more often and in larger amounts to poor people, especially poor children.

Flannery

we need both “effective public disapproval” and “the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation.” I offer this book as a springboard to both.