The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice / Personal Liberty and Community Safety

- The Need for Reform: Bail, Pretrial Release, and Detention: The Critical Need for Judicial Reform

- The Development and Implementation of Voluntary Guidelines in Criminal Justice

- Evidence about Guidelines

- The Pretrial Systems in Three Urban Courts: The Courts in Boston, Dade County, and Maricopa County

- Design of the Research

- The Consequences of Bail Decisions in the Three Courts

- The Nature of Bail Decision Making in Maricopa County

- The Nature of Bail Decision Making in Dade County

- The Nature of Decision Making in Boston Municipal Court

- Visibility, Equity, Rationality, and Effectiveness in the Three Court Systems

- Construction of Decision Guidelines for Pretrial Release: Consideration of Alternative Decision Making Models

- The Construction of Bail-Pretrial Release Decision Guidelines in the Courts

- Estimating the Impact of the Guidelines

- Implementation and Evaluation of Judicial Decision Guidelines: Implementation and Evaluation

- The Implementation of Pretrial Release Guidelines in Maricopa County

- The Implementation of Pretrial Release Guidelines (`Uniform Bond Standards') in Dade County

- Conclusion: The Promise of Pretrial Release Guidelines: The Promise of Decision Guidelines for Pretrial Release

- Postscript: Pretrial Release Guidelines and the Passage of Time

- Appendix

- Index

`A catalyst for moving decision makers away from traditionally held concepts regarding bail, release and detention and toward more rational and better managed procedures.' -- from the Foreword by Timothy J. Murray, Director, Office of Substance Abuse Control for Metropolitan Dade County, Florida