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The Perils of ‘Off-Label Sentencing’
Risk-assessment tools, which claim to predict the risk that an individual will commit, or be arrested for, criminal activity, are increasingly being applied to sentencing decisions. But they may cause more harm than good, writes a University of Richmond law professor.