{"id":10739,"date":"2015-08-05T06:21:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:21:48","slug":"pennsylvania-to-become-first-state-to-use-precrime-statistics-in-criminal-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10739","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use \u201cPrecrime\u201d Statistics in Criminal Sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/08\/04\/pennsylvania-to-become-first-state-to-use-precrime-statistics-in-criminal-sentencing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use \u201cPrecrime\u201d Statistics in Criminal Sentencing<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26025\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-1.23.15-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 1.23.15 PM\" width=\"260\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant\u2019s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country to base criminal sentences not only on what crimes people have been convicted of, but also on whether they are deemed likely to commit additional crimes. As early as next year, judges there could receive statistically derived tools known as risk assessments to help them decide how much prison time \u2014 if any \u2014 to assign.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From the Five Thirty Eight article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/prison-reform-risk-assessment\/\">Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven\u2019t Been Committed Yet?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As technology generally continues to advance, one thing you can be sure of is the criminal justice system\u2019s use of innovative new \u201ctools\u201d\u00a0will grow exponentially. This can be a good thing, but\u00a0it can also be a very dangerous thing.\u00a0Pennsylvania\u2019s new law that permits the use of data showing whether people\u00a0are \u201cdeemed likely to commit additional crimes\u201d in criminal sentencing, is a perfect example of how an over reliance on technology can be a threat to liberty and due process.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than explaining my position on the matter right here, I think it best to\u00a0make my points\u00a0within excerpts from the article itself. \u00a0From<em><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/prison-reform-risk-assessment\/?ex_cid=538twitter\">Five Thirty Eight<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant\u2019s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country to base criminal sentences not only on what crimes people have been convicted of, but also on whether they are deemed likely to commit additional crimes. As early as next year, judges there could receive statistically derived tools known as risk assessments to help them decide how much prison time \u2014 if any \u2014 to assign.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use \u201cPrecrime\u201d Statistics in Criminal Sentencing Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant\u2019s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future. Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7852,4285,6174,619,7851,7853,786],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-criminal-sentencing","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-pennsylvania","tag-precrime","tag-risk-assessment","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}