Sloan, Carly Will; Naufal, George S; Caspers, Heather - 2018
The use of risk assessment scores as a means of decreasing pretrial detention for low-risk, primarily poor defendants … score policy on judge bond decisions, defendant pretrial detention, and pretrial recidivism. We identify effects by … on non-financial bond and decreased pretrial detention. These results appear to be driven by poor defendants. We also …