Risk assessment tools driven by algorithms offer promising advantages in predicting the recidivism risk of defendants. Jurisdictions are increasingly relying upon risk tool outcomes to help judges at sentencing with their decisions on whether to incarcerate or whether to use community‐based sanctions. Yet as sentencing has significant consequences for public safety and individual rights, care must be taken that the tools relied upon are appropriate for the task. Judges are encouraged to act as gatekeepers to evaluate whether the forensic risk assessment tool offered has a sufficient level of validity in that it is fit for the purposes of sentencing, provides an acceptable level of accuracy in its predictions, and achieves an adequate standard of reliability with regard to its outcomes.

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使用风险评估工具对科学有效性进行司法保护。

由算法驱动的风险评估工具在预测被告的再犯风险方面具有可观的优势。司法管辖区越来越依赖风险工具的结果来帮助法官量刑，以决定是否监禁或是否使用基于社区的制裁。然而，由于判刑对公共安全和个人权利具有重大影响，因此必须注意，所依赖的工具适用于该任务。鼓励法官充当看门人，以评估所提供的法医风险评估工具是否具有足够的有效性，以使其适合量刑，在预测中提供可接受的准确性水平并达到足够的可靠性标准关于其结果。