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Applications of risk prediction technologies in criminal justice: the nexus of race and digitised control

Applications of risk prediction technologies in criminal justice: the nexus of race and digitised control
Applications of risk prediction technologies in criminal justice: the nexus of race and digitised control
This chapter addresses the intersection of digital risk prediction and race. It argues that studies demonstrating the limited validity of risk technologies with respect to Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups reinforce the position of penological scholars who theorised risk and implied that risk is an instrument of racialised control. The validity studies also call into question the objective fairness of the technologies. Objective fairness in this context pertains to the ethicality of using flawed predictions to incapacitate BAME people or to compel them to undertake more intensive rehabilitative work than required. The chapter also explores the issue of subjective fairness and argues that this dimension of risk prediction has been ignored. In particular, the chapter focuses on the nexus of race, predictions, legitimacy, and compliance in the contexts of rehabilitative work. It argues that systemic racial discrimination (for example, the application of risk technologies imbued with predictive bias), can pose implications for the perceived legitimacy of authority, which can in turn undermine the processes and outcomes of rehabilitative work.
Routledge
Ugwudike, Pamela
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Ugwudike, Pamela
Graham, Hannah
McNeill, Fergus
Raynor, Peter
Taxman, Faye
Trotter, Chris
Ugwudike, Pamela
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Ugwudike, Pamela
Graham, Hannah
McNeill, Fergus
Raynor, Peter
Taxman, Faye
Trotter, Chris

Ugwudike, Pamela (2019) Applications of risk prediction technologies in criminal justice: the nexus of race and digitised control. In, Ugwudike, Pamela, Graham, Hannah, McNeill, Fergus, Raynor, Peter, Taxman, Faye and Trotter, Chris (eds.) Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice. 1st edition ed. Routledge.

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This chapter addresses the intersection of digital risk prediction and race. It argues that studies demonstrating the limited validity of risk technologies with respect to Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups reinforce the position of penological scholars who theorised risk and implied that risk is an instrument of racialised control. The validity studies also call into question the objective fairness of the technologies. Objective fairness in this context pertains to the ethicality of using flawed predictions to incapacitate BAME people or to compel them to undertake more intensive rehabilitative work than required. The chapter also explores the issue of subjective fairness and argues that this dimension of risk prediction has been ignored. In particular, the chapter focuses on the nexus of race, predictions, legitimacy, and compliance in the contexts of rehabilitative work. It argues that systemic racial discrimination (for example, the application of risk technologies imbued with predictive bias), can pose implications for the perceived legitimacy of authority, which can in turn undermine the processes and outcomes of rehabilitative work.

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Accepted/In Press date: 25 February 2019
Published date: 17 September 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 429884
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/429884
PURE UUID: ad9072dd-a06f-4420-a303-680e973dfacb
ORCID for Pamela Ugwudike: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1084-7796

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Date deposited: 08 Apr 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:30

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Author: Pamela Ugwudike ORCID iD
Editor: Pamela Ugwudike
Editor: Hannah Graham
Editor: Fergus McNeill
Editor: Peter Raynor
Editor: Faye Taxman
Editor: Chris Trotter

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