title: Recommended for release on recognizance: factors affecting pretrial release recommendations.
abstract: Researchers have acknowledged the influence of pretrial release agencies in judicial decision making regarding bail; however, few researchers have focused on the process used by the pretrial release agencies to make bail-bond recommendations. In this study I sought to establish which factors were most salient in making the decision to recommend a defendant for release on recognizance. I found that both officially sanctioned release criteria and "extralegal" variables were predictive of this decision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Auburn University, AL 36849-5209.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Petee
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003417:Criminal Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D016495:Police; D012494:Sampling Studies