"Farid and Dressler found that giving untrained experts access to seven details about an individual produced a 67 percent accuracy rate. COMPAS, which uses 137 data points, has a 65 percent accuracy rate."
Criminal Legal News
July 20, 2018
Read MoreDefendants are regularly condemned to years, decades, or life in prison for minor infractions because of minimum sentencing statutes. If judges had more discretion in sentencing, then sentences could be more proportional to the crime, more specific to the individual defendant, and minimize the negative impact of minimum sentencing laws without inherently needing those laws repealed.
"Farid and Dressler found that giving untrained experts access to seven details about an individual produced a 67 percent accuracy rate. COMPAS, which uses 137 data points, has a 65 percent accuracy rate."
Criminal Legal News
July 20, 2018
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