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Christopher T. Lowenkamp
Researcher at University of Missouri–Kansas City
Publications - 85
Citations - 4670
Christopher T. Lowenkamp is an academic researcher from University of Missouri–Kansas City. The author has contributed to research in topics: Recidivism & Risk assessment. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 83 publications receiving 4108 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher T. Lowenkamp include University of Cincinnati & Government of the United States of America.
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False Positives, False Negatives, and False Analyses: A Rejoinder to "Machine Bias: There's Software Used across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. and It's Biased against Blacks"
TL;DR: The authors pointed out that ProPublica's report was based on faulty statistics and data analysis, and that the report failed to show that the COMPAS itself is racially biased, let alone that other risk instruments are biased.
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The Risk Principle in Action: What Have We Learned From 13,676 Offenders and 97 Correctional Programs?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how adherence to the risk principle by targeting offenders who are higher risk and varying length of stay and services by level of risk affects program effectiveness in reducing recidivism.
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Does correctional program quality really matter? the impact of adhering to the principles of effective intervention*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data on 3,237 offenders placed in 1 of 38 community-based residential programs as part of their parole or other post-release control, and found significant and substantial relationships between program characteristics and program effectiveness.
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Increasing the effectiveness of correctional programming through the risk principle: identifying offenders for residential placement*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, post-release control, or probation, and found significant and substantial differences in the effectiveness of programming were found on the basis of various risk levels.
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Replicating Sampson and Groves's Test of Social Disorganization Theory: Revisiting a Criminological Classic
TL;DR: This article replicated Sampson and Groves's findings with data from the 1994 British Crime Survey and found that similar models with similar measures yield results consistent with social disorganization theory and consistent with the results presented by Sampson-Groves.