Abstract

Personal recognizance (PR) bonds, often an option in pretrial services programs, allow defendants to be released while awaiting trial without financial backing. This offers some relief for jail overcrowding and permits the defendant the ability to maintain responsibilities of daily life. Not everyone released, however, successfully participates in these programs. This study seeks to analyze correlates and predictors of various types of non-compliance that could result in pretrial release forfeiture, operationalized by failure to appear in court and incurring new charges while on PR bond. This dependent variable is analyzed with several predictor variables that are excluded from traditional risk assessment tools and criminal history to determine the offenders most at risk for failure on pretrial release through a PR bond. Findings suggest the presence of several protective factors for program failure that are not typically considered when making release decisions such as having a passport and being the primary caregiver of children. The implications of these effects as well as variables that were collected but unable to be included in the present study are discussed.

摘要

个人担保 (PR) 债券通常是审前服务计划中的一种选择，允许在没有经济支持的情况下在等待审判期间释放被告。这为监狱过度拥挤提供了一些缓解，并使被告能够维持日常生活的责任。然而，并不是每个被释放的人都成功地参与了这些计划。本研究旨在分析各种类型的违规行为的相关因素和预测因素，这些违规行为可能导致审前释放被没收，由于未能出庭和在 PR 保释期间产生新的指控而得以实施。这个因变量与几个被排除在传统风险评估工具和犯罪历史之外的预测变量进行分析，以确定通过 PR 债券在审前释放中最有可能失败的罪犯。研究结果表明，在做出释放决定时通常不会考虑计划失败的几个保护因素，例如拥有护照和作为儿童的主要照顾者。讨论了这些影响的影响以及已收集但无法包含在本研究中的变量。