A new study challenges thinking that algorithms outperform humans when making important criminal justice decisions. A widely-used computer software tool may be no more accurate or fair at predicting ...

COMPAS, a piece of software commonly used in the justice system to predict which offenders will find themselves behind bars again, is no better than soliciting random people on Mechanical Turk to ...

A computer program used to calculate people’s risk of committing crimes is less accurate and more racist than random humans assigned to the same task, a new Dartmouth study finds. Before they’re ...

In 2016, ProPublica caused a stir when it evaluated the performance of software that’s used in criminal justice proceedings. The software, which is used to evaluate a defendant’s chance of committing ...

HANOVER, N.H. - January 17, 2018 - A widely-used computer software tool may be no more accurate or fair at predicting repeat criminal behavior than people with no criminal justice experience, ...

Can you predict a crime? More than a half-century ago, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick imagined a world in which a “precrime” agency made that possible. Today, a handful of tools promise to help ...