actuarial method in criminal law

city

expository society

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

critical theorist

innovator in the field of

critical theory

cultural theory

legal theory

political economy

political theory

punishment

surveillance

political scientist

is the outmoded idea that statistical analysis of large data sets can enable predictions about the future behavior of particular individuals.

the idea that policy makers can look at large data sets about regulated population and, via complex statistical analysis, discern from the data predictions about the future behavior of the particular individuals. . . .Harcourt debunks the notion with three arguments... one economic, one in terms of social costs, and the third ethical in dimension.

1s 2reatness is measured not by its buildings but by its collective compassion toward its poor, its aged, its sick the very people who are so often consigned to the junk heap of history by cynics and purveyors of benign neglect those who inform us that the urban crisis is no more... that the problems of our major urban areas would disappear if we would only stop talking about them.

G48 A city's greatness cannot be measured by the height of its tallest buildings... the length and breadth of its public transportation system... the number ol centers... or the presence of great museums of art and archeology beckoning us to peer into the past. All of these things are wonderful and their existence is a sign of a city's vitality and vibrancy. But they don't add up to greatness. A city's greatness is measured by its collective compassion toward its poor, its aged, its sick the very people who are so often consigned to the junk heap of history by cynics and purveyors of benign neglect those who inform us that the urban crisis is no more... that the problems olour major urban areas would disappear ifwe would only stop talking about them. (Speech at Hunter College, May 20, 1975) GIFFORD, Bernard (1943 )

is a modern form of power beyond 'spectacle' and surveillance to forms of exhibition or exposition on the web.

Guy Debord spoke of 'the society of the spectacle,' Foucault drew our attention instead to 'the punitive society,' but it seems as if, today, we live in the expository society. This essay offers an architectural schema to better understand our contemporary distributions of power, one that focuses on the themed space of consumption. It then actualizes the metaphor by exploring one particular manifestation of a fully-digitized themed space, and asks how we have come to embrace and love these new forms of exhibition today.

Bernard Harcourt

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