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Prediction of Criminal Conduct and Preventive Confinement of Convicted Persons

Andrew von Hirsch
- 01 Jan 1972 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 3, pp 717
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Dangerousness, Risk and Technologies of Power

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the significance of dangerous offender legislation and some of the theoretical issues that this raises, concluding that the dangerousness legislation today involves the use of a largely unnoticed strategy of control, and seems more likely to have an effect on the behaviour of potential victims of crime rather than dangerous offenders themselves.
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Are limiting enactments effective? an experimental test of decision making in a presumptive parole state

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to determine if decision making complied with the 1979 New Jersey Parole Act, and whether factors such as plea bargaining, aggravation, or type of crime affected these decisions.
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The Ethics of Selective Incapacitation: Observations on the Contemporary Debate

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the criteria for prediction and for desert differ significantly in the degree of emphasis that may be placed on the prior criminal history, and in the type of information about that history which may appropriately be used.
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Judgments about Crime and the Criminal

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"Civil" Commitment of the Mentally III and the Need for Data on the Prediction of Dangerousness:

TL;DR: Characteristics of present research suggest that future efforts will be inadequate to meet the need for information from the behavioral sciences, and well-designed but admittedly high-risk efforts to develop and test methods of predicting behavior are justified.