The promise of risk assessment tools is the promise of data-driven decision-making: less reliance on personal whims and prejudices, and more uniform results. But while data-driven decision-making is possible, uniformity is another story.
Assessment tools in use across the U.S. assign scores to defendants or convicted offenders based on the likelihood they’ll recidivate, or fail to appear at a pretrial hearing or commit a crime before that hearing.
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