Incarceration without conviction : pretrial detention and the erosion of innocence in American criminal justice
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Incarceration without conviction : pretrial detention and the erosion of innocence in American criminal justice
（Sociology re-wired / edited by Jodi O'Brien and Marcus Hunter）
Routledge, 2022
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-110) and index
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Description
Incarceration Without Conviction addresses an understudied fairness flaw in the criminal justice system. On any given day, approximately 500,000 Americans are in pretrial detention in the US, held in local jails not because they are considered a flight or public safety risk, but because they are poor and cannot afford bail or a bail bond. Over the course of a year, millions of Americans cycle through local jails, most there for anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. These individuals are disproportionately Black and poor.
This book draws on extensive legal data to highlight the ways in which pretrial detention drives guilty pleas and thus fuels mass incarceration--and the disproportionate impact on Black Americans. It shows the myriad harms that being detained wreaks on people's lives and well-being, regardless of whether or not those who are detained are ever convicted. Rabinowitz argues that pretrial detention undermines the presumption of innocence in the American criminal justice system and, in so doing, erodes the very meaning of innocence.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"
