Algorithms have permeated throughout civil government and society, where they are being
used to make high-stakes decisions about human lives. In this paper, we first develop a …

Risk assessment algorithms are being adopted by public sector agencies to make high-
stakes decisions about human lives. Algorithms model “risk” based on individual client …

Caseworkers are trained to write detailed narratives about families in Child-Welfare (CW)
which informs collaborative high-stakes decision-making. Unlike other administrative data …

Caseworkers in the child welfare (CW) sector use predictive decision-making algorithms
built on risk assessment (RA) data to guide and support CW decisions. Researchers have …

The US Child Welfare System (CWS) is increasingly seeking to emulate business models of
the private sector centered in efficiency, cost reduction, and innovation through the adoption …

Risk assessment tools derived from algorithms are increasingly utilised in social work
decision making. Jurisdictions in the US, Australia, Europe and the UK are developing …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to disrupt the way tasks are being carried out, finding
its way into almost all facets of human existence, and advancing the development of human …

The study investigated the decision of judges, referring to the dosimetry of the base-penalty,
applied to crimes of robbery and theft. A total of 1063 sentences were used, handed down in …