Rethinking Bail: Court Reform or Business as Usual?

by Max Travers, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Emma Colvin

Book Overview

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council. The topic, bail reform, has attracted attention from criminologists and law reformers over many years. In the USA, a reform movement has argued that risk analysis and pre-trial services should replace the bail bond system (the state of California may introduce this system in 2020). In the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, there have been concerns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030448835
• ISBN13: 9783030448837
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"