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Of Risk Assessment and the Problems of Bias and Justice

June 19, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice

In his Scatterplot post algorithmic-decisionmaking-replaces-your-biases-with-someone-elses-biases Sociologist Dan Hirschman has written a good summary (with links) of recent discussions of the problems with COMPAS, a “risk assessment” tool that is used to decide whether people are released from prison or jail.  He calls particular attention to the story in Rebecca Wexler’s

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Stata code for designing custom graph colors

June 17, 2017 Pamela Oliver Research Methods

A few readers may be interested in how I used Stata to create the color scheme for the offenses in the graphs I’ve posted recently. This is a “stats nerd” post that assumes the reader uses Stata, a statistical package. Everybody else may wish to give it a pass. Some

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Another bad idea: automatic revocation if charged with a crime

June 15, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Revocations, Wisconsin

Hopefully the enormous costs will dissuade legislators from passing a bill that would require the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to automatically recommend revocation of anyone “charged with a crime.” The bill literally says “charged with a crime.” Not a felony, not a violent crime, “a crime.” Although ordinances that are

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Clock restarting and Wisconsin’s Revocation Problem

June 12, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

A quirk in Wisconsin’s Truth in Sentencing law increases the “churning” in and out of prison via revocation and creates the possibility for massive injustice & increases costs.[i] A Wisconsin sentence has a total length that is divided into two parts, imprisonment and extended supervision in the community. If a

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Offense, Admission Types, In Prison Vs. Admitted

June 9, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

  I’ve written several posts trying to clarify the reasons you will get a different mix of offenders in a snapshot of who is in prison versus the flow of prison admissions. This also comes up as we compare the combination of offense type and admission type. To illustrate this,

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Wisconsin Imprisonment Trends By Offense

June 8, 2017 Pamela Oliver Imprisonment, Wisconsin

A reporter’s inquiry led me to look into the changing mix of offenses among people in Wisconsin’s prisons 2000-2014. This is a short version of a longer report about what what I found. A report in the Wisconsin Taxpayer Magazine provides a substantial amount of analysis, including summaries of important policies

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Creating Protest Event Databases: A New Protocol

June 7, 2017 Pamela Oliver Research on protest & social movements

In constructing and analyzing new data on Black protests, I’ve come to realize the importance of improving standard protocols for collecting protest event data. Although protest event data has one record per event, these events are recorded in news accounts that talk about multiple events in one article and the

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