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

  • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    13 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.