An Empirical Modeling Approach To Recidivism Classification  

Oleh:

Dow, Edward ; Jones, Charles ; Mott, Jack

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Criminal Justice and Behavior vol. 32 no. 2 (Apr. 2006), page 223-247.
Topik: empirical modeling; recidivism; classification; high and low risk offenders; risk factors
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A nonlinear, exemplar-based empirical modeling methodology was applied to the problem of classifying relative levels of recidivism risk in a population of released offenders from theWisconsin Department of Corrections. Issues related to extracting relatively pure classes of exemplars from relatively ambiguous data are detailed. Risk was defined as the associative match to one of two exemplar groups; higher or lower risk offenders. The area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve for 620 offenders examined in the initial subgroupwas .94.Comparable results were found with a smaller validation sample of 408 offenders known to be higher risk. Implications of controlling for risk factor patterns are discussed

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