TY - JOUR PY - 1996// TI - Predicting criminal recidivism: A comparison of neural network models with statistical methods JO - Journal of criminal justice A1 - Caulkins, Jonathan A1 - Cohen, John A1 - Gorr, Wilpen A1 - Wei, Jiuchang SP - 227 EP - 240 VL - 24 IS - 3 N2 - This article applies neural network and conventional statistical models to predicting criminal recidivism. While having promising properties for predicting recidivism, the network models do not exhibit any advantage over the other methods in an application on a well-known data set. Analysis suggests that currently available prediction variables have limited information content for discriminating recidivists, regardless of the models or methods used.

LA - SN - 0047-2352 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(96)00012-8 ID - ref1 ER -