Congress also responded to the recidivism rates in the United States by enacting the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. No. 103-322, 108 Stat. 1796). This act mandates life imprisonment for the commission of a serious violent felony or a combination of two or...
Of completers, the five-year recidivism rates are significantly lower for the Schedule I drug use only (26%) than Schedule I & II drugs use (52%) and heterogeneous group (47%). Results from Cox regression indicated that the duration of recidivate to drug use is significantly longer for ...
Whilst recidivism rates are not reported for women, the proportion of women in prison who have a prior imprisonment is reported which shows that roughly half (48%) of women in prison have been previously imprisoned [11]. New South Wales (NSW), the most populous State in Australia, housed ...
Notably, there is a consistent and large difference between the estimated and maximally accepted rates of algorithm error across all four domains. Expressed in percentage points, the differences in false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN) are for application suitability (ΔFP = 17, ΔFN...
That is, predictive algorithms cannot understand the realistic situations of things [15]. In May 2016, ProPublica investigated COMPAS and found racial disparities in the predictive decision of the system, with the false-positive rates nearly twice as high for black offenders compared to white ...