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Incarceration without Conviction - Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Paperback)
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Incarceration without Conviction - Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Paperback)
Series: Sociology Re-Wired
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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.
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