Probably one of the greatest accomplishments of neoliberal social science has been its conflation of where individuals fall within a distribution of risk, with where the mean of the entire risk distribution is.

You're essentially mapping social arrangements and the operation of social systems onto individuals,

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at Death Panel underscore. So today I'm here with my co-host, Jules Gil Peterson.

Hello.

And we are joined by returning guest and friend of the panel, Seth Prins.

Seth is a psychiatric epidemiologist and assistant professor of epidemiology and sociomedical sciences at Columbia University.

Seth's research centers around the collateral consequences of mass criminalization and mass incarceration for public health and on how the division and structure

of labor affect mental illness and drug use. And we've asked Seth here today to talk to us about

his work on something called criminogenic risk assessment. Seth, welcome back to the show.

It's so great to have you on the death panel again.

Thanks so much.

I'm excited to be back.

So today, we're going to talk about this supposedly evidence-based data-driven tool

that the criminal justice system uses to impose efficiency on the processes of identifying, sorting, and targeting criminalized people.

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