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Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation

Katherine Hood, Daniel Schneider
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 126-149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.06
Katherine Hood
aGraduate student in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
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bAssistant professor of sociology at the University of California
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    Between-County Variation in Terms of Pre-Trial Detention, 2006/2009 (SCPS)

    Source: Authors’ calculations from the 1990–2009 SCPS (ICPSR 2016).

    Note: Plotted values county-specific estimates, adjusting for year of survey and weighted using the survey weights.

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    Time Trends in Terms of Pre-Trial Detention, 1990-2009 (SCPS)

    Source: Authors’ calculations from the 1990–2009 SCPS (ICPSR 2016).

    Note: Hollow circles represent estimates of year-specific predicted values from model with county fixed effects with survey weights. Solid lines apply loess smoother (bandwidth = 0.8).

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    Mean Financial Bail by Political Party of District Attorney

    Source: Authors’ calculations from the 1990–2009 SCPS (ICPSR 2016) and originally collected data.

    Note: Predicted values from model 3b.

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    Amount of Money Bail by County Unemployment Rate

    Source: Authors’ calculations from the 1990–2009 SCPS (ICPSR 2016) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics program.

    Note: Predicted values from model 2b.

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    Share of Defendants Granted Nonfinancial Release by Percentage of County Population African American

    Source: Authors’ calculations from the 1990–2009 SCPS (ICPSR 2016) and Census Bureau intercensal estimates.

    Note: Predicted values from model 1b.

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Katherine Hood, Daniel Schneider
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