| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: racial formation in the risk society -- Life -- Crime -- Home -- Proxies -- Conclusion: sharing risk equitably |
| Summary |
"Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment presents the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. It illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and, in turn, helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. The monograph begins by investigating the development of statistical risk assessment explicitly based on race in the late-nineteenth-century life insurance industry. It then traces how such risk assessment migrated from industry to government, becoming a guiding force in parole decisions and in federal housing policy. Finally, it concludes with an analysis of "proxies" for race--statistical variables that correlate significantly with race--in order to demonstrate the persistent presence of race in risk assessment even after the anti-discrimination regulations won by the Civil Rights Movement. Offering readers a new perspective on the historical importance of actuarial science in structural racism, Calculating Race is a particularly timely contribution as Big Data and algorithmic decision-making increasingly pervade American life"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on December 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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Risk assessment -- United States
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Race discrimination -- United States.
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Actuarial science -- United States
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African Americans -- Housing.
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Life insurance -- United States
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African American criminals.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States
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Actuarial science
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African American criminals
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African Americans -- Economic conditions
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African Americans -- Housing
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Life insurance
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Race discrimination
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Race relations
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Risk assessment
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Sentences (Criminal procedure)
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020007984 |
| ISBN |
9780197504031 |
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0197504035 |
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9780197504024 |
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0197504027 |
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0197504019 |
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9780197504017 |
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