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Risk assessment technologies: sentencing

Judges use RATs to inform sentencing decisions. RATs calculate the probability that a person will reoffend in the future. Judges may rely on that calculation in making a  judgment about that person’s supposed “dangerousness.”

Risk assessment technologies: sentencing

Judges use RATs to inform sentencing decisions. RATs calculate the probability that a person will reoffend in the future. Judges may rely on that calculation in making a  judgment about that person’s supposed “dangerousness.”

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Risk assessment technologies: sentencing

In contrast to pretrial RATs, which make recommendations about whether to detain or whether to release someone and on what conditions, judges use sentencing RATs in complex decisions about the nature, duration and severity of punishment. 

See the appendix for more information.