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  title info:
    title: Calculating race
    sub title: racial discrimination in risk assessment
  name:
    name part: Wiggins, Benjamin
    name part: 1985-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Loaded Dice: Race & Risk in the United States presents the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. It illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and, in turn, helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. The monograph begins by investigating the development of statistical risk assessment explicitly based on race in the late-nineteenth-century life insurance industry. It then traces how such risk assessment migrated from industry to government, becoming a guiding force in sentencing and parole decisions and in federal housing policy. Finally, it concludes with an analysis of "proxies" for race-statistical variables that correlate significantly with race, in order to demonstrate the persistent presence of race in risk assessment even after the anti-discrimination regulations won by the Civil Rights Movement. Offering readers a new perspective on the historical importance of actuarial science in structural racism, Loaded Dice is a particularly timely contribution as Big Data and algorithmic decision making increasingly pervade American life.
  table of contents: Racial Formation in the Risk Society -- Life -- Crime -- Home -- Proxies -- Sharing Risk Equitably.
  note: Benjamin Wiggins.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1975-
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Risk assessment
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Race discrimination
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Actuarial science
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Housing
  subject:
    topic: Life insurance
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: African American criminals
  subject:
    topic: Sentences (Criminal procedure)
    geographic: United States
  classification: E185.86 .W43855 2020
  classification: 305.896/073
  identifier: 9780197504000
  identifier: 0197504000
  identifier: 9780197504024
  identifier: 9780197504017
  identifier: 9780197504031
  identifier: 2020007983
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200228
    record change date: 20210422110156.0
    record identifier: in00004350304