Bail and pretrial release decisions: An assessment of the racial threat perspective

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 23-44

  Free, Marvin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bail; Conflict theory; Pretrial release; Race; Racial threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247660869     PISSN: 15377938     EISSN: 15377946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J222v02n04_02     Document Type: Article

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