The Importance of Risk Assessment in Criminal Policy

Sally Kohn: I don't think criminogenic risk assessment is a useful thing because it conflates criminalization with criminality. The left needs to kind of draw the line where it's where, you know, to decide where it needs to draw the lines and abolitionists can do what they want she says. Kohn: If we're going to imagine a future where we have adequate social housing and adequate healthcare can risk assessments be used to help provide people things that they need to live free good lives? She goes on to ask if these kinds of tools are right for policymakers but also questions whether or not data driven evidence based policies should exist at all.