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Statistics In Law: Bad Inferences & Uncommon Sense, Curtis E.A. Karnow
Statistics In Law: Bad Inferences & Uncommon Sense, Curtis E.A. Karnow
Curtis E.A. Karnow
A review of classic fallacies in statistics and probability in the courts. The article briefly, and in plain English, provides an introduction to probability theory, and randomness.
Class Matters, Erica J. Hashimoto
Class Matters, Erica J. Hashimoto
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Poor people constitute one of the most overrepresented categories of people in the criminal justice system. Why is that so? Unfortunately, we simply do not know, in large part because we have virtually no information that could provide an answer. As a result of that informational vacuum, policymakers either have ignored issues related to socioeconomic class, instead focusing on issues like drug addiction and mental illness as to which there are more data, or have developed fragmented policy that touches on socioeconomic class issues only tangentially. The bottom line is that without better data on the profile of poor defendants, …