The last several years have seen a marked rise in state and federal pretrial detention rates. There has been little scholarly commentary or even analysis of whether this increased detention is reducing pretrial crime. Though in the 1960s to 1980s several studies discussed whether it was possible...

Many scholars over the years have claimed that there is race discrimination in the detention decision because more blacks are detained pretrial than whites charged with the same crimes. Studies suggest that judges‘ perceptions using stereotypes of minorities determine whether they deem a...