Richard Berk
Biographic Data
| ID | 151302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Berk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Berk |
| SIGNATURE | BERK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: The State of the Art
Objectives: Discussions of fairness in criminal justice risk assessments typically lack conceptual precision. Rhetoric too often substitutes for careful analysis. In this article, we seek to clarify the trade-offs between different kinds of fairness and between fairness and accuracy. Methods: We draw on the existing literatures in criminology, computer science, and statistics to provide an integrated examination of fairness and accuracy in crimin…
Redefine statistical significance
Misspecified Mean Function Regression: Making Good Use of Regression Models That Are Wrong
There are over three decades of largely unrebutted criticism of regression analysis as practiced in the social sciences. Yet, regression analysis broadly construed remains for many the method of choice for characterizing conditional relationships. One possible explanation is that the existing alternatives sometimes can be seen by researchers as unsatisfying. In this article, we provide a different formulation. We allow the regression model to be …
The Dynamics of Crime Regimes
Crimes have many features, and the mix of those features can change over time and space. In this article, we introduce the concept of a crime regime to provide some theoretical leverage on collections of crime features and how the collections of features can change. Key tools include the use of principal components analysis to determine the dimensions of crime regimes, visualization methods to help reveal the role of time, summary statistics to q…
The Role of Race in Forecasts of Violent Crime
Overdispersion and Poisson Regression
Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique
Death Penalty Charging in Los Angeles County: An Illustrative Data Analysis Using Skeptical Priors
The authors analyze death penalty charging data for Los Angeles County involving homicides from 1990 to 1994. The data were collected by the Los Angeles Times. This data set is one of the largest tabulations of homicide defendant data yet collected. A Bayesian logistic regression analysis is applied with a proper prior formulated to provide conservative inferences. The authors illustrate procedures for inferences for polytomous predictors and rep…
An Overview of Evaluation Strategies and Procedures
T H E PURPOSE of this paper is to provide a detailed introduction to the variety of purposes for which evaluation research may be used and to the range of methods that are currently employed in the practice of that field. Specific examples are given wherever appropriate to provide concrete illustrations of both the goals of evaluation researchers and the methods used. While the coverage of this paper is intended to be comprehensive in the sense o…
Labor and Leisure at Home
Prison Reform and State Elites
White institutions E black rage: Representatives of white society’s outposts in the ghetto present the face of racism
Redefine statistical significance
Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: The State of the Art
Objectives: Discussions of fairness in criminal justice risk assessments typically lack conceptual precision. Rhetoric too often substitutes for careful analysis. In this article, we seek to clarify the trade-offs between different kinds of fairness and between fairness and accuracy. Methods: We draw on the existing literatures in criminology, computer science, and statistics to provide an integrated examination of fairness and accuracy in crimin…
The Role of Race in Forecasts of Violent Crime
Death Penalty Charging in Los Angeles County: An Illustrative Data Analysis Using Skeptical Priors
The authors analyze death penalty charging data for Los Angeles County involving homicides from 1990 to 1994. The data were collected by the Los Angeles Times. This data set is one of the largest tabulations of homicide defendant data yet collected. A Bayesian logistic regression analysis is applied with a proper prior formulated to provide conservative inferences. The authors illustrate procedures for inferences for polytomous predictors and rep…
The Dynamics of Crime Regimes
Crimes have many features, and the mix of those features can change over time and space. In this article, we introduce the concept of a crime regime to provide some theoretical leverage on collections of crime features and how the collections of features can change. Key tools include the use of principal components analysis to determine the dimensions of crime regimes, visualization methods to help reveal the role of time, summary statistics to q…
Labor and Leisure at Home
An Overview of Evaluation Strategies and Procedures
T H E PURPOSE of this paper is to provide a detailed introduction to the variety of purposes for which evaluation research may be used and to the range of methods that are currently employed in the practice of that field. Specific examples are given wherever appropriate to provide concrete illustrations of both the goals of evaluation researchers and the methods used. While the coverage of this paper is intended to be comprehensive in the sense o…
Misspecified Mean Function Regression: Making Good Use of Regression Models That Are Wrong
There are over three decades of largely unrebutted criticism of regression analysis as practiced in the social sciences. Yet, regression analysis broadly construed remains for many the method of choice for characterizing conditional relationships. One possible explanation is that the existing alternatives sometimes can be seen by researchers as unsatisfying. In this article, we provide a different formulation. We allow the regression model to be …
White institutions E black rage: Representatives of white society’s outposts in the ghetto present the face of racism
Prison Reform and State Elites
Labor and Leisure at Home
An Overview of Evaluation Strategies and Procedures
T H E PURPOSE of this paper is to provide a detailed introduction to the variety of purposes for which evaluation research may be used and to the range of methods that are currently employed in the practice of that field. Specific examples are given wherever appropriate to provide concrete illustrations of both the goals of evaluation researchers and the methods used. While the coverage of this paper is intended to be comprehensive in the sense o…
Death Penalty Charging in Los Angeles County: An Illustrative Data Analysis Using Skeptical Priors
The authors analyze death penalty charging data for Los Angeles County involving homicides from 1990 to 1994. The data were collected by the Los Angeles Times. This data set is one of the largest tabulations of homicide defendant data yet collected. A Bayesian logistic regression analysis is applied with a proper prior formulated to provide conservative inferences. The authors illustrate procedures for inferences for polytomous predictors and rep…
Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique
Overdispersion and Poisson Regression
The Dynamics of Crime Regimes
Crimes have many features, and the mix of those features can change over time and space. In this article, we introduce the concept of a crime regime to provide some theoretical leverage on collections of crime features and how the collections of features can change. Key tools include the use of principal components analysis to determine the dimensions of crime regimes, visualization methods to help reveal the role of time, summary statistics to q…
The Role of Race in Forecasts of Violent Crime
Misspecified Mean Function Regression: Making Good Use of Regression Models That Are Wrong
There are over three decades of largely unrebutted criticism of regression analysis as practiced in the social sciences. Yet, regression analysis broadly construed remains for many the method of choice for characterizing conditional relationships. One possible explanation is that the existing alternatives sometimes can be seen by researchers as unsatisfying. In this article, we provide a different formulation. We allow the regression model to be …
Redefine statistical significance
Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: The State of the Art
Objectives: Discussions of fairness in criminal justice risk assessments typically lack conceptual precision. Rhetoric too often substitutes for careful analysis. In this article, we seek to clarify the trade-offs between different kinds of fairness and between fairness and accuracy. Methods: We draw on the existing literatures in criminology, computer science, and statistics to provide an integrated examination of fairness and accuracy in crimin…
Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)