Criminal justice risk forecasts anticipate the future behavior of specified individuals, rather than "predictive policing" for locations in time and space, which is a very different enterprise that uses different data different data analysis tools.
Machine learning methods that build on classification trees have proved very effective in criminal justice classification and forecasting applications.
Former justice minister Victor Prudent Topanou has forecast his failure and a well known columnist refers to him as the "proconsul", as if to say he is not Beninese.
Tribe points out that the description of Nixon's articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice "reads like a forecast of what Trump would do decades later".
Many court observers forecast that Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's swing justice and co-author of the Casey ruling, will provide the fifth vote for overturning the Fifth Circuit panel.
The working group studying transitional justice was eerily prescient in forecasting the widespread looting in the aftermath of the fall of Mr. Hussein's government, caused in part by thousands of criminals set free from prison, and it recommended force to prevent the chaos.
According to one study, if confirmed, Judge Gorsuch "might be the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court". Another forecast that Judge Gorsuch would be the most conservative other than Justice Thomas and that he is one of the most conservative among the candidates hand-selected by the ideologically-driven Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation.
Still, nothing stops Corizon or any other private company from leaving their posts in the justice system as soon as the profit forecast looks gloomy.
Who could possibly have forecast the convoluted path that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. took to uphold the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care legislation, last term?
(Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the Senate she would offer "no forecasts, no hints" about how she would decide cases).
This book puts in one place and in accessible form Richard Berk's most recent work on forecasts of re-offending by individuals already in criminal justice custody.
