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Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) is a case management and decision support software developed and owned by Northpointe (now Equivant), used by U.S. courts to assess the likelihood of a defendant becoming a recidivist.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| COMPAS are used because of the desire for objective | instance of | Support and criticismRisk assessment tools | 0.80 | text |
| evidence-based sentencing procedures as well as increased efficiency in the court system | instance of | Support and criticismRisk assessment tools | 0.80 | text |
| COMPAS is that since the algorithms it uses are trade secrets | instance of | but are difficult to implement.A general critique of the use of proprietary software | 0.80 | text |
| they cannot be examined by the public | instance of | but are difficult to implement.A general critique of the use of proprietary software | 0.80 | text |
| affected parties | instance of | but are difficult to implement.A general critique of the use of proprietary software | 0.80 | text |
| which has been described as a violation of due process | instance of | but are difficult to implement.A general critique of the use of proprietary software | 0.80 | text |
| education level or employment status are correlated with race | instance of | because factors | 0.80 | text |
| algorithms using these factors produce different results for different racial groups.One of the proposed benefits of risk assessment tools is an expected reduction in incarceration rates | instance of | because factors | 0.80 | text |
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