Incarceration Without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9781032006185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 114 str.

Mikaela Rabinowitz

Opis

Drawing on extensive legal data to address an understudied fairness flaw in the criminal justice system, this book details how pretrial detention drives guilty pleas and fuels mass incarceration—especially of Black Americans.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. “The mechanics of the guilty plea”
3. “But what will become of the innocent?”
4. “Someone has to pay a price…”
5. “The pains of imprisonment”
6. Looking forward
Appendix A: Notes on Quantitative Methodology

O autorze

Mikaela Rabinowitz is the Director of Data, Research, and Analytics at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, which does not seek to detain people using cash bail. She has a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and a BA in African American Studies from Columbia University.