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Research on Jails and Jail Alternatives
Jennifer E. Copp, Ph.D.Florida State University
Presented to the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial IncarcerationTraverse City, MIAugust 23, 2019
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What we will cover
Do arrests make us safer?How does pretrial detention impact public safety?How does pretrial detention impact defendants?What works to improve pretrial outcomes?What works to protect victims pretrial?Is jail an effective sanction for convicted populations?
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Do arrests make us safer?
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Being arrested in young adulthood may contribute to later increases in arrest and substance disorders.
Source: Doherty, E., Cwick, J., Green, K., & Ensminger, M. (2016). Examining the consequences of the ‘prevalent life events’ of arrest and incarceration among an urban African-American cohort. Justice Quarterly, 33(6) 970-999.
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Having an arrest record can reduce access to employment.
Source: Uggen, C., Vuolo, M., Lageson, S., Ruhland, E., & Whitham, K. (2014). The edge of stigma: An experimental audit of the effects of low-level criminal records on employment. Criminology, 52(4): 627-654.
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There is evidence that alternatives to arrest can reduce rearrest rates and are financially beneficial for jurisdictions.
• Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT)• Law-enforcement driven
initiatives
• Citations in lieu of arrest• Civil citations in lieu of
criminal citations• Summons in lieu of arrest
See Reference List for source material.
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How does pretrial detention impact safety?
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Pretrial detention temporarily reduces offending through incapacitation but increases arrests post-disposition.
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Source: Leslie, E., & Pope, N. G. (2017). The unintended impact of pretrial detention on case outcomes: Evidence from New York City arraignments. The Journal of Law and Economics, 60(3), 529-557.
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How does pretrial detention impact defendants?
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• Decreased likelihood of formal employment• Reductions in earnings
Employment
• Increased dependence on government programs, including cash welfare receipt
Dependence on Government Programs
• Greater residential difficulties, including disruptions in housingResidential Instability
• Negative impact on dependent childrenChild Well-Being
See Reference List for source material.
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11% more
likely to plead guilty
Being detained pretrial has been shown to increase the likelihood of:• Pleading guilty• Receiving a jail or prison sentence
See Reference List for source material.
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Pretrial failure is rare.Research consistently shows that the majority of released defendants show up to court and are not rearrested.
Do not fail to appear
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Source: Stevenson, M. (2018). Assessing risk assessment in action. Minnesota Law Review, 103, 303-384.
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Financial bonds are not more effective than release on recognizance (ROR) for certain types of defendants.
Money bail did not
significantly improve court
appearance rates
Low- and moderate-risk
defendants
Defendants charged with
low level offenses
Phillips, M. T. (2012). A decade of bail research in New York City. New York: New York Criminal Justice Agency, Inc.
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Early alternatives to money bail show promising results for defendants charged with lower-level offenses.
Increasing release without money bail for low level offenses
Increasing number of people released without monetary conditions for
low-level offenses
No significant increase in failure to appear
No significant increase in rearrest
Source: Ouss, A., & Stevenson, M. (2019). Evaluating the impacts of eliminating prosecutorial requests for cash bail. George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS, 19-08.
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Lower Risk Defendants
• No statistical difference % failure to appear• No statistical difference % new charges
Highest Risk Defendants
• No statistical difference % failure to appear• No statistical difference % new charges
Secured bonds are not more effective than unsecured bonds at ensuring court appearance or public safety.
Sources: Bechtel, K., Holsinger, A. M., Lowenkamp, C. T., & Warren, M. J. (2017). A meta-analytic review of pretrial research: Risk assessment, bond type, and interventions. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 42(2), 443-467.; Brooker, C. M. B., Jones, M. R., & Schnacke, T. R. (2014). The Jefferson County Bail Project: Impact study found better cost effectiveness for unsecured recognizance bonds over cash and surety bonds. Rockville, MD: Pretrial Justice
Institute.; Jones, M. R. (2013). Unsecured bonds: The as effective and most efficient pretrial release option. Rockville, MD: Pretrial Justice Institute.
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There is no credible evidence that surety bonds are more effective than other release mechanisms.
• Existing studies focused on the effect of surety bonds suffer from flawed methodology.
• To date, no trustworthy research has been published supporting the use of money bail.
See Reference List for source material.
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What works to improve pretrial outcomes?
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• Intensive supervision is no more effective than other types of supervision.
• In-person supervision is no more effective than automated phone reporting systems.
See Reference List for source material.
Pretrial supervision does not appear to reduce pretrial failure.
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See Reference List for source material.
Electronic monitoring is no better (or worse) at reducing pretrial failure than regular supervision.
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Court-date reminders increase appearance rates.
• Several studies have shown that court-date reminders improve court appearance among pretrial population across a range of notification types.
See Reference List for source material.
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• Numerous randomized control trials show that drug testing is ineffective at reducing rates of failure to appear and rearrest.
See Reference List for source material.
Drug testing does not increase appearance rates or improve public safety.
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See Reference List for source material.
Pretrial risk assessments may help to assess who is at risk for pretrial failure, however there are significant questions and concerns about their use for pretrial release decisions.
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What works to protect victims pretrial?
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Protection orders appear to reduce physical abuse in some circumstances.
Women with protection
orders were less likely to experience:
• Contacts• Injuries• Abuse-Related Medical Cases• Physical Abuse• Psychological Abuse• Emotional Abuse• Threatening
See Reference List for source material.
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Victim advocacy, outreach, shelter, and safety planning services reduce re-victimization.
• Formal strategies (such as shelters or safety and advocate services) reduce revictimization and the fear of victimization.
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Is jail an effective sanction for convicted populations?
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Jail sentences may increase rearrest.
Source: Caudy, M., Tillyer, M.S., & Tillyer, R. (2018). Jail versus probation: A gender specific test of differential effectiveness and moderators of sanction effects. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45(7): 949-968.
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Longer jail terms are no more effective than shorter jail terms.
• Recent studies suggest that shortening jail terms and serving part of a jail sentence in the community rather than in jail can reduce rearrest.
See Reference List for source material.
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Community-based sentences may be
more effective than jail.
Less likely to reoffend
No difference in time to next
violationNo difference in
number of violations
No difference in successful program
completionSources: Wodahl, E. J., Boman, J. H., Garland, B. E. (2015). Responding to probation and parole violations: Are jail sanctions more effective than community-based graduated sanctions? Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 242-250.; Mears,
D., & Cochran, J. (2018). Progressively Tougher Sanctioning and Recidivism: Assessing the Effects of Different Types of Sanctions. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 55(2): 194-241.
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Research Takeaways
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Some interventions designed to improve public safety may actually undermine it.
Not all pretrial interventions are created equal.
Promising practices to promote victim safety include protection orders and victim-centered supports and services.
Reductions to jail sentences and other community-based alternatives appear more effective for promoting public safety.