Guest Editors’ Comments: Risk Assessment and Judicial Decision Making

Andrews D. A. Bonta J. Hoge R. (1990). Classification for effective rehabilitation: Rediscovering psychology. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 17, 19-52.

Barbaree H. Seto M. Langton C. Peacock E. (2001). Evaluating the predictive accuracy of six risk assessment instruments for adult sex offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 28, 490-521.

Berk R. (2016). A primer on fairness in criminal justice risk assessments. The Criminologist, 41(6), 6-9.

Bonta J. (2002). Offender risk assessment: Guidelines for selection and use. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 29, 355-379.

Chouldechova A. (2017). Fair prediction with disparate impact: A study of bias in recidivism prediction instruments. Big Data, 5, 153-163.

Cohen T. H. Lowenkamp C. T. (2019). Revalidation of the federal PTRA: Testing the PTRA for predictive biases. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46, 234-260.

Eckhouse L. Lum K. Conti-Cook C. Ciccolini J. (2019). Layers of bias: A unified approach for understanding problems with risk assessment. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46, 185-209.

Gendreau P. Goggin C. E. Law M. A. (1997). Predicting prison misconducts. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 24, 414-431.

Hannah-Moffat K. (2013). Actuarial sentencing: An “unsettled” proposition. Justice Quarterly, 30, 270-296.

Harbinson E. Benson M. L. Latessa E. J. (2019). Assessing risk among white-collar offenders under federal supervision in the community. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46, 261-279.

Harcourt B. E . (2015). Risk as a proxy for race: The dangers of risk assessment. Federal Sentencing Reporter, 27, 237-243.

Jesness C. (1988). Jesness Inventory Classification System. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 15, 78-91.

Kleinberg J. Mullainathan S. Raghavan M. (2016). Inherent trade-offs in the fair determination of risk scores. Arxiv, 1609.05807. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807

Lowder E. M. Morrison M. M. Kroner D. G. Desmarais S. L. (2019). Racial bias and LSI-R assessments in probation sentencing and outcomes. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46, 210-233.

Monahan J. (1996). Violence prediction: The past twenty and the next twenty years. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 23, 107-120.

Schwalbe C. S. (2008). A meta-analysis of juvenile justice risk assessment instruments: Predictive validity by gender. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35, 1367-1381.

Simourd D. (2004). Use of dynamic risk/need assessment instruments among long-term incarcerated offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 31, 306-323.

Skeem J. L. Lowenkamp C. T. (2016). Risk, race, and recidivism: Predictive bias and disparate impact. Criminology, 54, 680-712.

Starr S. (2015). The new profiling: Why punishing based on poverty and identity is unconstitutional and wrong. Federal Sentencing Reporter, 27, 229-236.

Sutton J. R. (2013). Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants. Social Science Research, 42, 1207-1221.

Voltaire . (1919). Voltaire in his letters: Being a selection of his correspondence ( Tallentyre S. G. , Trans.). New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press. (Original work published in 1770)