Predicting Parole Violators

Parole board in Criminal Justice System, analyze an inmate's application (along with behavior, history etc) and decide to release an inmate on parole or deny the application. This type of model can be very helpful for the parole board. The dataset used in this experiment is taken from 15.071x The Analytics Edge, a course taught by MIT. This model uses Logistic Regression (also known as Logit Regression) for prediction. We will try to predict "violator" column's value which can be 1 (if parolee violated the parole) or 0 (if parolee did not committed any crime while on parole). Since the outcome of our predictive model is either 0 or 1 we can apply "Two-Class Logistic Regression" algorithm to our dataset. Dataset: ======== male: 1 if the parolee is male, 0 if female race: 1 if the parolee is white, 2 otherwise age: the parolee's age (in years) when he or she was released from prison state: a code for the parolee's state. 2 is Kentucky, 3 is Louisiana, 4 is Virginia, and 1 is any other state. time.served: the number of months the parolee served in prison (limited by the inclusion criteria to not exceed 6 months). max.sentence: the maximum sentence length for all charges, in months (limited by the inclusion criteria to not exceed 18 months). multiple.offenses: 1 if the parolee was incarcerated for multiple offenses, 0 otherwise. crime: 2 is larceny, 3 is drug-related crime, 4 is driving-related crime, and 1 is any other crime. violator: 1 if the parolee violated the parole, and 0 if the parolee completed the parole without violation. Steps: ======== 1. Drag the parole.csv from saved dataset. 2. Split the datset into 70% Training data and 30% Test data. Make the random seed to 144. 3. Fill the 70% training data into Train Model and select the column "violator" as we are tryign to predict this column's outcome. 4. Select "Two-Class Logistic Regression" from Machine Learning section and apply it to the Training Model. Leave default values as it is. 5. Connect the outcome of the Train Model to the Score Model that also takes 30% of the test data to apply the algorithm. 6. Lastly we have to evaluate the Score Model using Evaluate Model to determine the accuracy of our model. 7. Select Visualize from the output node of the Train Model and you will see the Accuracy of this model is determined as 0.906 which is pretty awesome. Remember the perfect accuracy is 1. Area Under the Curve (AUC) has been calculated as 0.882 (with 0.5 threshold value) which also shows that this is a pretty strong model for parole prediction. Ref: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/series/38/studies/26521?archive=NACJD&sortBy=7