Justice secretary’s white paper will overhaul youth justice rules and could end lifelong criminal records for under-18s

Justice secretary’s white paper will overhaul youth justice rules and could end lifelong criminal records for under-18s

  • teslekova@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Well, ok, what works better than targets? Gotta measure how you’re going somehow.

    Edit: btw, all those factors I mentioned are indeed political reasons.

    • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Determining what your goal is in terms of outcome, not numbers or percentages.

      When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

      The more any quantitive social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt social processes it is intended to monitor.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell’s_law

      These things have been known about in sociology and political science for quite some time.