Determining Racial Equity in Pretrial Risk Assessment.
The risk level of each defendant was calculated using the PTRA, a risk assessment tool designed to score defendants based on risk of unsuccessfully completing their pretrial supervision term. Previous research suggested Black defendants were more often wrongly classified than White defendants by ris...
| Published in: | Federal Probation Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 26 - 35 |
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