Forecasting murder within a population of probationers and parolees: a high stakes application of statistical learning

  1. Richard Berk1,
  2. Lawrence Sherman2,
  3. Geoffrey Barnes3,
  4. Ellen Kurtz4,
  5. Lindsay Ahlman4

Article first published online: 24 JUL 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00556.x

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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)

Volume 172, Issue 1, pages 191–211, January 2009

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Berk, R., Sherman, L., Barnes, G., Kurtz, E. and Ahlman, L. (2009), Forecasting murder within a population of probationers and parolees: a high stakes application of statistical learning. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 172: 191–211. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00556.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  2. 2

    Cambridge University, UK, and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  3. 3

    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  4. 4

    First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

*Richard Berk, Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, 483 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: berk@sas.upenn.edu

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 22 DEC 2008
  2. Article first published online: 24 JUL 2008
  3. [Received September 2007. Final revision March 2008]

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