Statewatch | UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system
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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28280646

The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The MoJ has developed and implemented other data-based profiling tools in the British criminal legal system to predict offending.
    This includes the re-offending prediction tool called the ‘Offender Assessment System’. ‘Predictions’ produced by this system are given to judges as part of sentencing decisions, prison categorisation, and also influence probation decisions, such as when someone is released from prison.

    Research by the MoJ itself has found that these data-based models rank Black offenders less accurately than white offenders.