Artificial Intelligence and Risk Assessments in Criminal Justice

The robots are here. And we need to learn how to get along. AI, data analytics, and risk assessments are increasingly entwined with the criminal justice process, becoming more important with each passing month. To be effective now and into the future, advocates, jurists, probation officers, other criminal justice professionals, and policymakers will need to understand these tools, how they are used, and how they might be regulated and governed. This double issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter was developed to help further that understanding.

Contributors: Julian Adler, Elie Alhajjar, Laith Al-Saadoon, Jethro Antoine, Dwayne Butler, Catherine Chen, Ed Chung, Jody Fridley, Nicholas Goldrosen, Kristine Hamann, Ashley Hirashima, Dennis D. Hirsch,  Kamaria Horton, Jason Kalish, Robert Mahari, Brian Mattson, Gabriele Mazzini,  Antonia Merzon, Jared Ott, Jesse Rothman, Jake J. Smith, C. Clare Strange, Karen Tan, Adam Unikowsky, Angie Westover-Munoz, Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Christopher B. Yaluma