In 2009, the National Research Council issued a report on forensic analysis in court. It found that few forensic investigative techniques are supported by sufficient science.The Federal Rules of Evidence require judges to admit evidence from expert witnesses, like...
Month: February 2020
Do bail risk assessment tools reduce unnecessary pretrial holds?
Many people agree that our criminal justice system relies too much on pretrial detention -- keeping people in jail because they are assigned bail they can't afford. Ideally, we could tell who is a flight risk and who is a danger to the community in some logical way...
Arrests, jail more common in rural and small/midsize counties
As we consider the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, we start with the knowledge that crime has been dropping since the mid-1990s. That should mean that arrest rates are also dropping, but that isn't always the case.Furthermore, 25 years ago, the...
