RT Article
T1 Time, Money, and Punishment: Institutional Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Pretrial Detention and Case Outcomes:
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 66
IS 6/7
SP 837
OP 863
A1 Martinez, Brandon P.
A2 Omori, Marisa
A2 Petersen, Nick
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1698106998
AB While prior research finds that pretrial detention has downstream consequences for racial inequalities in conviction and sentencing, it is often conceptualized as a discrete event within the criminal justice system. This study instead argues that pretrial detention operates as a racial-ethnic stratification process across time. We assess whether temporal and monetary dimensions of pretrial produce and reinforce racial-ethnic disparities in pretrial and subsequent case outcomes. Results indicate that time and money significantly stratify defendants by race and ethnicity, where bond amounts increase time detained, and that time detained in turn reinforces racial inequalities in conviction and incarceration. Indicative of cumulative understandings of inequality, our study shows how time and money in pretrial detention perpetuate inequalities in the criminal justice system.
K1 Institutional racism
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Pretrial detention
K1 Bond
K1 Sentencing
DO 10.1177/0011128719881600