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1. Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing

   John T Monahan, Jennifer L. Skeem · 2015 · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · 256 cites

   The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal sentencing, both to reduce recidivism by incapacitating or treating high-risk offenders and to reduce prison populations by diverting low-risk offenders from prison. We begin by sketching jurisprudential theories of sentencing, distinguishing those that rely on risk assessment from those that preclude it. We then characterize and illustrate the varying roles that risk assessment may play in the sentencing process. We clarify questions regarding the various meanings of "risk" in sentencing and the appropriate time to assess the risk of convicted offenders. We conclude by addressing four principal problem

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2. Savry Risk Assessment in Violent Dutch Adolescents: Relation to Sentencing and Recidivism

   Henny P.B. Lodewijks, Theo A.H. Doreleijers, Corine De Ruiter · 2008 · Criminal Justice and Behavior · 61 cites

   This study examines the predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) by examining relationships between SAVRY scores and violent reoffending during a 3-year period after sentencing. Two types of sentences were studied: a mandatory treatment order ( N = 77) and a juvenile prison sentence ( N = 40). The predictive validity of the SAVRY was significant for the two types of sentences. The predictive validity of the unstructured clinical judgment proved to be not significant. Support was found for the hypothesis that the juvenile court's sentence (treatment versus detention) might have been influenced by the unstructured clinical risk assessment of the mental

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3. The Need for Transparency in the Age of Predictive Sentencing Algorithms

   Alyssa Carlson · 2017 · Iowa Law Review · 45 cites

4. Ghosting the Machine: Judicial Resistance to a Recidivism Risk Assessment Instrument

   Dasha Pruss · 2023 · Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency · 36 cites

   Recidivism risk assessment instruments are presented as an ‘evidence-based’ strategy for criminal justice reform – a way of increasing consistency in sentencing, replacing cash bail, and reducing mass incarceration. In practice, however, AI-centric reforms can simply add another layer to the sluggish, labyrinthine machinery of bureaucratic systems and are met with internal resistance. Through a community-informed interview-based study of 23 criminal judges and other criminal legal bureaucrats in Pennsylvania, I find that judges overwhelmingly ignore a recently-implemented sentence risk assessment instrument, which they disparage as “useless,” “worthless,” “boring,” “a waste of time,” “a non-

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5. The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes

   James M. Anderson, M. Buenaventura, Paul S. Heaton · 2019 · Harvard Law Review · 25 cites

6. Adventures in Risk: Predicting Violent and Sexual Recidivism in Sentencing Law

   Melissa Hamilton · 2014 · 13 cites

7. Recidivism, Incapacitation, and Criminal Sentencing Policy

   Andrew D. Leipold · 2006 · UST Research Online (University of St. Thomas - Minnesota) · 7 cites

   In a world in which we value elegant solutions to thorny problems, mere imprisonment stands out as ill-bred and underdressed.1

8. Short-Term Imprisonment of Independence Penalty from the Perspective of Punishment Objectives as Criminal Law Reform in Indonesia

   Ratri Novita Erdianti, Bagas Ranendra Pratama, Muhamad Helmi Md Said · 2025 · Indonesia Law Reform Journal · 5 cites

   This article examines the effectiveness of short-term imprisonment in Indonesia, focusing on its inherent limitations such as prisonisation, overcrowding, and persistent recidivism. Employing a normative juridical approach supported by correctional statistics, the study evaluates whether short custodial sentences fulfil the intended purposes of punishment. The findings indicate that such sanctions rarely deter offenders, fail to support rehabilitation, and hinder social reintegration, thereby exposing a significant gap between the theoretical aims of criminal law and the realities of correctional practice. The analysis highlights how reliance on short-term imprisonment exacerbates systemic c

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