The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Pretrial Release Practices in the United States, 1976-1978

(2 datasets; 18,507 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Toborg, Mary A.

Summary: Funded by the National Institute of Justice, this data collection represents Phase II of a larger project to evaluate pretrial release practices. The study focuses on four major topics: (1) release--rates and types of releases, defendant or case characteristics and their impact on the release decision, (2) court appearance --extent to which released defendants appear in court, factors associated with defendants' failure to appear in court, (3) pretrial criminality--number of rearres... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07972.v2

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