Comments on "A Quantitative Theory of Criminal Justice" -Walking the Line in Societal Engineering

Not infrequently, societal engineers are accused of neglecting human values and of proposing impractical solutions to oversimplified problems. Sometimes this criticism is invited, and perhaps justified, by a tendency to go too far, too fast, in the modeling of complex social systems. As an example, these comments consider some possible reactions to Rabow´s model of criminal justice.