racial-discrimination-in-sentencing

This repository consists of some analysis of racial discrimination in penal sentencing. Specifically, I interrogate the fairness of the COMPAS algorithm, which has produced inequitable disparities among racial lines.

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/17/can-an-algorithm-be-racist-our-analysis-is-more-cautious-than-propublicas/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5580

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm