If you could raise the predictive accuracy of your sentencing instrument from 10% to 50% would you allow for the following factors to be used: socioeconomic status, level of education, age at first arrest, parental criminality status, unemployment history and race? If not, why not? Which factors do you find morally troubling?
Return to the board and read over the posts of your fellow classmates. Choose at least one classmate and create a post responding to his/her initial post on the Discussion Board. Be thoughtful in your response, indicating your agreement/disagreement with their posting and give a careful reasoning of your position. Please note: in all of your postings/replies, you must demonstrate careful reasoning and logic to bolster your position. Unsubstantiated opinions have no place in this area.
The other students post is in the file