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The bail book : a comprehensive look at bail in America's criminal justice system
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ISBN: 1108547346 1316443191 110854844X 1107131367 1107579155 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Mass incarceration is one of the greatest social problems facing the United States today. America incarcerates a greater percentage of its population than any other country and is one of only two countries that requires arrested individuals to pay bail to be released from jail while awaiting trial. After arrest, the bail decision is the single most important cause of mass incarceration, yet this decision is often neglected since it is made in less than two minutes. Shima Baradaran Baughman draws on constitutional rights and new empirical research to show how we can reform bail in America. Tracing the history of bail, she demonstrates how it has become an oppressive tool of the courts that disadvantages minority and poor defendants and shows how we can reform bail to alleviate mass incarceration. By implementing these reforms, she argues, we can restore constitutional rights and release more defendants, while lowering crime rates.


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Bail support schemes for adults
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ISBN: 1283212692 9786613212696 1847429556 1847429548 9781283212694 9781847429544 9781847429551 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press,

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This important book makes a valuable contribution to an under-researched area. It includes an evaluation of the Effective Bail Scheme (EBS) and discusses the potential for the wider development of bail support schemes and some of the questions and challenges posed by their use.


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Current issues and trends in special education.
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ISBN: 9781848556539 1848556535 9781848556690 1848556691 1848556527 9781848556522 9781848556522 9781849509541 1849509549 9781848556683 1848556683 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bingley : Emerald,

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The field of special education constantly changes as a result of legislation, instructional formats and research investigations. Addressing the issues and trends in Special Education, this title covers identification, assessment and instruction. It also covers research, technology, and teacher preparation.


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Decision theory and the legal process
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ISBN: 0669027421 9780669027426 Year: 1979 Publisher: Lexington (Mass.): Heath,


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Rethinking Bail : Court Reform or Business as Usual?
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ISBN: 3030448819 9783030448813 3030448800 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council. The topic, bail reform, has attracted attention from criminologists and law reformers over many years. In the USA, a reform movement has argued that risk analysis and pre-trial services should replace the bail bond system (the state of California may introduce this system in 2020). In the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, there have been concerns about tough bail laws that have contributed to a rise in imprisonment rates. The approach in this book is distinctive. The inter-disciplinary authors include criminologists, an academic lawyer and a forensic psychologist together with qualitative researchers with backgrounds in sociology and anthropology. The book advances a policy argument through presenting descriptive statistics, interviews with practitioners and detailed accounts of bail applications and their outcomes. There is discussion of methodological issues throughout the book, including the challenges of obtaining data from the courts.

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