THE USES OF JAIL CONFINEMENT IN THREE COUNTIES
作者:
Patrick G. Jackson,
期刊:
Review of Policy Research
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 3
页码: 592-605
ISSN:1541-132X
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1988.tb00856.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
This study uses a longitudinal approach to study the characteristics of pretrial inmates and court dispositions of their charges in three jails. Over 1,300 inmates were tracked from the point of booking through court disposition. The results indicate that a majority of the inmates booked into the jails are charged with relatively minor offenses and that most have less serious misdemeanor arrest and conviction histories. Very few or none of the defendants at each site were sentenced to prison and, at most, about one‐fifth of the defendants were sentenced to any additional jail time upon conviction. Policy implications of the results are briefly discusse
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