PA will sentence criminals while considering the chance of recidivism

[Commissar]

risk assessments tend to be a joke.

Not if they are conducted to industry best practices.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/04/the-new-science-of-sentencing

"Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country to base criminal sentences not only on what crimes people have been convicted of, but also on whether they are deemed likely to commit additional crimes. As early as next year, judges there could receive statistically derived tools known as risk assessments to help them decide how much prison time

 

[RedRocket44]

I mean, doesn't this already happen? First time offenders typically don't get the same punishment as a guy with a 7 page rap sheet for a similar crime do they?