Shima Baradaran Baughman

The Bail Book

A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America's Criminal Justice System

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 329
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781107579156
• ISBN-10: 1107579155
• Artikelnr.: 53212575

Autorenporträt

Shima Baradaran Baughman is Professor of Law in the S. J. Quinney College of Law, at the University of Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. History of bail in America
2. Bail as a constitutional right
3. The bail process: how pretrial operates and the types of release before trial
4. Bail and prediction of crime
5. Individual and societal costs of pretrial detention
6. Race and bail in the criminal justice system
7. Bail and the Sixth Amendment rights to counsel and jury trial
8. Pretrial detention and terrorism in post-9/11 America
9. International bail
10. Money bail
11. Optimal bail: using constitutional and empirical tools to reform America's bail system
Appendix 1
Appendix 2.