RT Article
T1 Bias testing of the public safety assessment: error rate balance between whites and blacks for new arrests
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 12
SP 2088
OP 2113
A1 DeMichele, Matthew
A2 Baumgartner, Peter
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1782117474
AB This study is an evaluation of predictive bias by race when using a pretrial risk assessment. We use data from Kentucky from July 2013 through December 2014 (n = 164,597) to evaluate differences across five error measures. Pretrial risk assessments were developed to respond to growing awareness about how intuitive processes were leading to disparate impact for people of color and the poor. This study contributes data to the debate about the merits of pretrial risk assessments. The crux of this debate is the lack of standards about how to assess predictive bias. Our analyses demonstrate that a more nuanced understanding of pretrial outcomes and decision making are needed before fully understanding the strengths and weaknesses of pretrial risk assessments.
K1 Pretrial
K1 Risk Assessment
K1 Error rate balance
K1 Predictive bias
DO 10.1177/0011128720965116