Scholars in several fields, including quantitative methodologists, legal scholars, and
theoretically oriented criminologists, have launched robust debates about the fairness of …

A significant body of literature has examined racial and ethnic inequalities in sentencing,
focusing on how individual court actors make decisions, but fewer scholars have examined …

Although numerous quantitative studies have linked pretrial detention to increased
conviction rates, the precise mechanisms linking these decisions remain unclear. Qualitative …

While prior research finds that pretrial detention has downstream consequences for racial
inequalities in conviction and sentencing, it is often conceptualized as a discrete event …

Abstract Research Summary We explored the extent to which the implementation of a
pretrial risk assessment instrument (PRAI) corresponded to changes in the pretrial …

This article examines the relationship between race, ethnicity, county-level contextual
variables, and sentence lengths for Black, Latinx, and White individuals sentenced to prison …

The purpose of pretrial incarceration is not punishment. Yet, research demonstrates that
pretrial detention elicits similar consequences as punishment. The goal of this study is to …

Cash bail has come under increasing scrutiny because of the high number of defendants
who remain detained pretrial when they are unable to afford their release. According to …

Booked arrests carry greater harms than non-booked arrests. When booked following an
arrest, individuals are confined without guilt and an official criminal record forms that carries …

Although misdemeanors make up the bulk of criminal cases in the United States, the
majority of research on court decision‐making examines felony sentencing. In contrast to …