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Record Nr.

UNINA9910410026503321

Autore

Travers Max

Titolo

Rethinking Bail : Court Reform or Business as Usual? / / by Max Travers, Emma Colvin, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Rick Sarre, Andrew Day, Christine Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-44881-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

346.916

Disciplina

345.072

345

Soggetti

Corrections

Punishment

Criminal justice, Administration of

Forensic psychology

Crime—Sociological aspects

Criminal law

Public safety

Prison and Punishment

Criminal Justice

Forensic Psychology

Crime and Society

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

Crime Control and Security

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Bail Reform In Context -- 3. Researching Bail Practices -- 4. Professional Perspectives -- 5. Bail Decision-Making -- 6. Defendants With Vulnerabilities -- 7. Risk Profiles.-8. Pretrial Services -- 9. Prospects For Court Reform -- 10. Conclusion: Rethinking Bail.

Sommario/riassunto

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.