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Back on the Streets
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has just released a new study, Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts (pdf). The study is interesting reading if only to remind oneself how crime is concentrated among a small minority of repeat offenders. Nearly a quarter of released defendants, for example, fail to appear on the day of their trial; worse yet 17 percent of released defendants are rearrested for a new offense before their trial even begins. If 17 percent are rearrested you can be pretty sure that the percentage of releasees who have committed a new crime is much higher.
The BJS study also verifies my research with Helland showing that commercial bail and bounty hunters work well. Defendants released on commercial bail are less likely to fail to appear and are more likely to be recaptured if they do fail to appear compared to those released on their own recognizance or on a public bail system.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on November 27, 2007 at 07:07 AM in Economics | Permalink
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"If 17 percent are rearrested you can be pretty sure that the percentage of releasees who have committed a new crime is much higher."
And yet it's a fair bet that half of those released were only initially arrested on drug offenses (since that's the class most granted pretrial release), and that 90% percent of the new crime by these releasees is drug use or possession. This makes make the figure a bit less concerning that it might first appear.
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