This is a study of major national efforts in the past 15 years to reduce the impact of money, and the lack of it, in determining whether a criminal defendant obtains freedom prior to trial. Thomas offeres the results of a national study on bail reform since its beginning with the Manhattan Bail Project of 1961 and a survey of the major operational changes in the bail system since then.
This is a study of major national efforts in the past 15 years to reduce the impact of money, and the lack of it, in determining whether a criminal defendant obtains freedom prior to trial. Thomas offeres the results of a national study on bail reform sin
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Bail Reform in America
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520031319
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1eBook ISBN
9780520352230
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1 The Bail Reform Movement
- 2 The American System of Bail
- 3 The Bail Reform Movement: 1961—1965
- 4 National Bail Study
- 5 Felony Detention Rates
- 6 Selected Felony Offenses
- 7 Misdemeanor Detention Rates
- 8 Days to Release
- 9 Failure to Appear
- 10 Days To Disposition
- 11 O.R. Projects, 1965-1970
- 12 Pretrial Release Programs and Nonfinancial Releases
- 13 The Call for Change
- 14 The Federal Bail Reform Act of 1966
- 15 Conditional Release
- 16 Deposit Bail Plans
- 17 The Police Role
- 18 Reaching the Defendant Quickly: Bail Schedules, Bail Commissioners, and Night Courts
- 19 Pretrial Services Agencies and Diversion Programs
- 20 Crime on Bail: The Preventive Detention Issue
- 21 Bail Reform: Present and Future
- APPENDIX National Bail Study- Case Selection Procedures
- INDEX
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