This is Your Brain on Trial
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Criminal Justice
If your goalor your policy preference is decarceration, making our predictive systems for violence more accurate is going to have a small benefit in terms of cutting down n those false positives. And indeed, this ties into existing critiques of many of the outcomes that the criminal legal system spitsot that are horrifying to many people. As it's not an accident that the analysis i mentioned from professor greens is written from a normative framework o prison abolition, right? Yes? Cause, i mean, if you aim your justice system and your legal system entirely at managing and minimizing risk to victims, you're forgetting, i guess, that the other point of the legal system is to keep innocent people free,
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