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Article Excerpt
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. vi + 264 pages. ISBN 9780226316130, $55.00 cloth. ISBN 9780226316147, $25.00 paper. Bernard E. Harcourt. 2007.
A challenge in addressing issues inherent in the variety of activities that constitute "profiling" is that in order to promote conceptual and theoretical development in this characteristically divisive area, competent researchers will have to confront deeply held and ingrained assumptions many hold about the population being profiled. These assumptions apply to particular racial groups, particular types of offenders (e.g., terrorists, gang members, rapists, and so on), and what might plausibly be assumed to merit effective responses, at all levels of the criminal justice system. Ultimately, therefore, it takes a scholar of great skill and impressive command of research data to effectively challenge some of the most rigidly...
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