![]() In the following brief, I examine the divergent evidence on Chicago bail reform, with an eye toward public safety. The bail reform efforts undertaken in Chicago and the rest of Illinois do not seem to have been guided by such reflection. Given the risks that attend such criminal justice reforms, we should expect reform efforts to be balanced, deliberately recognizing the costs and benefits of implementing one policy over another. Some of these trade-offs can be clearly measured in lives lost and hospital admissions others-like familial grief, investments not made, and the psychological toll of crime-are harder to quantify. ![]() More recently, efforts to shift policing resources to social services may have increased the number of social workers hired, but it also may have increased response times, reduced arrests, and increased crime. ![]() Mandatory misdemeanor arrest policies for domestic violence protected some women but endangered others. “Stop, question, and frisk” policies reduced violence but also clearly increased racial and ethnic antagonism. Incarcerate too many, and valuable resources are wasted too few, and public safety deteriorates. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Sydney.Criminal justice policy always involves competing trade-offs. 2015 “The impact of the NSW Bail Act (2013) on trends in bail and remand in New South Wales”. Institute for Criminal Policy Research, London. 2009 “Pretrial risk assessment in the Federal Court”. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Sydney. 2016 “A follow up on the impact of the Bail Act 2013 (NSW)”. “The Manhattan Bail Project: An Interim Report on the Use of Pre-Trial Parole”. 2007 “The effect of racial inequality on black male recidivism”. Productivity Commission 2015 Report on Government Services 2015. 2010 “Firm that does dirty work for the government on the cheap”. 2011 Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement. Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment. Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne. 2019 No Bail, More Jail? Breaking the Nexus between Community Protection and Escalating Pre-Trial Detention. Pretrial Justice Institute, Rockville, Maryland. 2011 State of the Science of Pretrial Risk Assessment. 2017 “In the US, some criminal court judges now use algorithms to guide decisions on bail”. 1974 An Evaluation of the Pretrial Services Agency of the VERA Institute of Justice. 1979 External validity of research in legal psychology. Congressional Research Service, Washington DC. 2018 Risk and Needs Assessment in the Federal Prison System. 2018 “Despite our fears, we should be wary of harsher bail laws”. 1983 Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail. 2001 “Bailing and jailing the fast and frugal way”. Paper for CRC Project.ĭepartment of Justice (Tasmania) 2018 Reforms to the Tasmanian Bail System: Position Paper. 2018 Bail Decision-Making as an Exercise in Risk Management. ![]() International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 2013 “Looking behind the increase in custodial remand populations”. 2017 “A meta-analytic review of pretrial research: Risk assessment, bond type, and interventions”. Free Press, New York.īetchel, K., Holsinger, A., Lownkamp, C. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.īecker, H. 2018 The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America’s Criminal Justice System. 2014 “Inside the wild, shadowy, and highly lucrative bail Industry”. 2018 “Bail, risk and law reform: A review of bail legislation across Australia”. ABS, Canberra.īartels, L., Gelb, K., Spiranovic, C., Sarre, R. Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018 Criminal Justice Statistics. ![]()
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