Life Course Consequences of Pre-Trial Detention

• In Event: Policy-Implications of DLC Research 2: The Life-Course Consequences of Criminal Justice Policy

Abstract

A substantial body of evidence concludes that pre-trail detention increases post-disposition recidivism rates yet evidence on the underlying mechanism giving rise to this effect is limited. In this presentation I will discuss putative explanations including the impacts of conviction, family disruption, and loss of employment and policy implication thereof from a life course perspective.

Author

• Dan Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University