The impact of race, gender, and age on the pretrial decision

Criminal Justice Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 318-334

  Freiburger, Tina L ^a   Hilinski, Carly M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal concerns; Pretrial release; Racial disparity; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955224572     PISSN: 07340168     EISSN: 15563839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734016809360332     Document Type: Article

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