COMPAS (software)

Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)^[1] is a case management and decision support tool developed and owned by Northpointe (now Equivant) used by U.S. courts to assess the likelihood of a defendant becoming a recidivist.^[2]^[3]

COMPAS has been used by the U.S. states of New York, Wisconsin, California, Florida's Broward County, and other jurisdictions.^[4]

^ "DOC COMPAS". Retrieved 2023-04-04.
^ Sam Corbett-Davies, Emma Pierson, Avi Feller and Sharad Goel (October 17, 2016). "A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It's actually not that clear". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 1, 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Aaron M. Bornstein (December 21, 2017). "Are Algorithms Building the New Infrastructure of Racism?". Nautilus. No. 55. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
^ Kirkpatrick, Keith (2017-01-23). "It's not the algorithm, it's the data". Communications of the ACM. 60 (2): 21–23. doi:10.1145/3022181. S2CID 33993859.