The Bail Book : A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America's Criminal Justice System (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. History of bail in America; 2. Bail as a constitutional right; 3. The bail process: how pretrial operates and the types of release before trial; 4. Bail and prediction of crime; 5. Individual and societal costs of pretrial detention; 6. Race and bail in the criminal justice system; 7. Bail and the Sixth Amendment rights to counsel and jury trial; 8. Pretrial detention and terrorism in post-9/11 America; 9. International bail; 10. Money bail; 11. Optimal bail: using constitutional and empirical tools to reform America's bail system; Appendix 1; Appendix 2.