A cultural report prepared for the sentencing said Reid had a “systemic depravation” in his background, a disconnection from his culture, a history of family instability and hardship and have been exposed to domestic violence and physical abuse as a young person.
He ran away from home at an early age. The report writer said there may also be some mental health issues.
Is this actually a quote from one of the news stories? Just wondering if so, as it seems completely believable and I would not be the slightest bit surprised if it was true
Edit just read story linked below, and it is a quote from that
You’re absolutely right, we should have seen it coming. More precisely the judge responsible for sentencing him should have seen it coming. That is what he is paid for
I recommend a book called “Noise: A flaw in human judgement”.
It looks into variation in professional judgement, they talk about how in any professional judgement, people are all over the place. It’s a good read but does get a bit stats-y at points. I don’t think you need to understand the maths to get value from the book though.
It spends a lot of time talking about US judges, and they do talk specifically about judges gauging flight risk of people being granted bail. They get it right like 55% of the time, and the author’s computer models do better at like 60%. It’s just really hard to judge. I would guess if every person in their circumstances was not granted bail, you’d need a lot more jail space.
I guess we should have seen it coming.
Who would have thought that poverty causes crime.
Is this actually a quote from one of the news stories? Just wondering if so, as it seems completely believable and I would not be the slightest bit surprised if it was true
Edit just read story linked below, and it is a quote from that
You’re absolutely right, we should have seen it coming. More precisely the judge responsible for sentencing him should have seen it coming. That is what he is paid for
I recommend a book called “Noise: A flaw in human judgement”.
It looks into variation in professional judgement, they talk about how in any professional judgement, people are all over the place. It’s a good read but does get a bit stats-y at points. I don’t think you need to understand the maths to get value from the book though.
It spends a lot of time talking about US judges, and they do talk specifically about judges gauging flight risk of people being granted bail. They get it right like 55% of the time, and the author’s computer models do better at like 60%. It’s just really hard to judge. I would guess if every person in their circumstances was not granted bail, you’d need a lot more jail space.