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The Progression of Disparities within the Criminal Justice System: Differential Enforcement and Risk Assessment Instruments [PDF]
, 2023 Algorithmic risk assessment instruments (RAIs) increasingly inform decision-making in criminal justice. RAIs largely rely on arrest records as a proxy for underlying crime. Problematically, the extent to which arrests reflect overall offending can vary with the person's characteristics.
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Religions, 2018 Religion in the United States remains a consistent source of conflict not only because of the breadth and depth of personal religious commitment, but also because of guarantees from the United States Constitution.
Lewis M. Wasserman +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionThe use of collaborative communication techniques by criminal justice practitioners has been identified as a component of core correctional practices (CCPs).
Raymond Chip Tafrate +3 more
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How do "technical" design-choices made when building algorithmic decision-making tools for criminal justice authorities create constitutional dangers? Part II [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This two-part paper argues that seemingly "technical" choices made by developers of machine-learning based algorithmic tools used to inform decisions by criminal justice authorities can create serious constitutional dangers, enhancing the likelihood of abuse of decision-making power and the scope and magnitude of injustice. Drawing on three algorithmic
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 238-248, January 2023., 2023 The voidability of a contract procured by ‘economic duress’ is now well‐established, but the precise boundaries of the doctrine remain contested. In Pakistan International Airlines Corp v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 40, the Supreme Court confronted the longstanding controversy as to whether a threat to perform a lawful act can provide grounds for
Timothy Pilkington, David Winterton
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How do "technical" design-choices made when building algorithmic decision-making tools for criminal justice authorities create constitutional dangers? [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This two part paper argues that seemingly "technical" choices made by developers of machine-learning based algorithmic tools used to inform decisions by criminal justice authorities can create serious constitutional dangers, enhancing the likelihood of abuse of decision-making power and the scope and magnitude of injustice. Drawing on three algorithmic
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Cautious scrutiny: The Federal Climate Change Act case in the German Constitutional Court
The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 263-275, January 2023., 2023 In a unanimous decision of 24 March 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court declared certain provisions of the Federal Climate Change Act (FCCA) unconstitutional. The Court upheld the greenhouse gas emission targets for the period until 2030 but found the outlined review procedure for the following years lacking: it failed to adequately specify ...
Stefan Theil
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“I Need Ammunition, Not a Ride”: The Ukrainian Cyber War
Comunicação e Sociedade, 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has shown that cyberwarfare is integral to modern military strategies. Although the Russian army has developed cyber capabilities and capacities over the years, Ukraine has quickly created a new and ...
Tine Munk, Juan Ahmad
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In the U.S., crime and violence are concentrated in cities that have lost industry and population due to economic disinvestment and structurally racist policies. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have called for community‐level approaches that reduce violence in these cities by improving unsafe physical environments, increasing ...
Laney A. Rupp +9 more
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 67-84, January 2023., 2023 In recent years there has been a proliferation of People's Tribunals (PTs), promising to address atrocities that have fallen through the net of a statist international legal order. However, the status of such informal tribunals has remained controversial in both literature and practice.
Aldo Zammit Borda, Stefan Mandelbaum
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