Research SummaryThe average length of jail stays is increasing despite national efforts to reduce these populations. The current study examines variations in lengths of stay, differentiating between short and long pretrial stays. Using data from two large jails in metropolitan jurisdictions, we take an intersectional perspective and model potential differences among race, gender, and residing in a high‐poverty area. In both locations, we find that Black men are the most likely to have long lengths of stay, but that length of stay varies depending on the intersection of gender, race, and neighborhood poverty.Policy Implications:The human costs of pretrial detention are paid unequally by different groups of people. Given the downstream costs of pretrial detention, this work suggests that focusing policy efforts on the barriers to release among people of color, particularly Black men, would be fruitful. There is evidence that bail reform can reduce some barriers to release without increases in crime. Further, attending to obstacles to case processing could lead to pretrial system reform. This work also highlights another area of the criminal legal system where Black males, compared to their White counterparts, are disparately affected and denotes the continuing need for intersectional perspectives on reform.

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种族、性别和贫困对审前监禁时间的影响：多地点分析


研究摘要 尽管国家努力减少监狱人口，但平均入狱时间仍在增加。目前的研究考察了拘留时间的变化，区分了短期和长期的审前拘留。利用来自大都市管辖区的两个大型监狱的数据，我们采取交叉视角，对种族、性别和居住在高度贫困地区之间的潜在差异进行建模。在这两个地点，我们发现黑人男性最有可能获得较长的拘留时间，但拘留时间的长短取决于性别、种族和社区贫困的交叉点。政策含义：审前拘留的人力成本是有偿的不同群体的人不平等。考虑到审前拘留的下游成本，这项工作表明，将政策努力集中在有色人种，特别是黑人男性的释放障碍上，将会取得成果。有证据表明，保释改革可以在不增加犯罪的情况下减少一些释放障碍。此外，解决案件处理中的障碍可能会导致审前制度改革。这项工作还强调了刑事法律体系的另一个领域，与白人男性相比，黑人男性受到不同的影响，并表明改革需要交叉视角。