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In Chapter 4, we described the structure of the courts participating in the research and the paths taken by cases entering the criminal process. The first task of the research process in preparation for guidelines development involves a sort of “diagnosis,” or mapping of the special features of pretrial release decisionmaking in the context of criminal processing. In this chapter, we employ a variety of special indicia that permit us to characterize pretrial release decisionmaking and place it in the context of processing.
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By administrative order, the circuit court authorizes defendants charged with nonviolent offenses and having no prior convictions for violent offenses to be released directly by pretrial services.
See Goldkamp (1985, Figure 9, and accompanying text).
See Dan Freed’s “imbalance ratio” (Feeley, 1979).
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Goldkamp, J.S., Gottfredson, M.R., Jones, P.R., Weiland, D. (1995). The Consequences of Bail Decisions in the Three Courts. In: Personal Liberty and Community Safety. The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1821-1_6
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