Criminal sentencing software
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"'Criminal sentencing software'" refers to non-human tools and algorithms used to determine the length and severity of a criminal’s sentence. This software typically takes a number of factors about the criminal, runs them through an algorithm, and serves the results as a recommendation to a judge. The increased reliance on criminal sentencing software over the last 20 years has raised serious ethical concerns. The algorithms of these software products have been shown to exhibit biases against certain ethnic groups, which has become a source of controversy among judges and policymakers.
