Christine S. Scott-Hayward

Punishing Poverty

How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

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Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to post the bail amount to guarantee their freedom until trial. Punishing Poverty examines how the current system of pretrial release detains hundreds of thousands of defendants awaiting trial. Tracing the historical antecedents of the US bail system, with particular attention to the failures of bail reform efforts in the mid to late twentieth century, the authors describe the painful social and economic impact of contemporary bail decisions. The first book-length treatment to analyze how bail reproduces racial and economic ine… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Fradella, Henry F.

ISBN: 978-0-520-97049-6
EAN: 9780520970496
Produktnummer: 30237812
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'120 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Christine S. Scott-Hayward is Associate Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach. Henry F. Fradella is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Affiliate Professor of Law at Arizona State University. Fradella is the author or coauthor of a dozen books, including Stop and Frisk and America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System.