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GGD-78-106 1 (1978-11-01)

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 07124 - EC3061)

 Statistical Results of the Bail Process in Eight Federal
 District Courts. GGD-78-106; B-157179. November 1, 1978. 5 pp. +
 7 appendices (35 pp.).

 Staff study by Daniel F. Stanton (for Allen R. Voss, Director,
 General Government Div.).

 Issue Area: Lay Enforcement and Crime Preventicn: Efforts to
    Reduce the Backlog of Cases and Provide fox Speedy Trials in
    Federal Courts (513).
Contact: General Government Div.
Budqet Function: Law Enforcement and Justice: Federal Judicial
    Activities 1752).
Organization Concerned: Administrative Ccnference of the United
    States; Federal Judicial Center.
Authority: Speedy Trial Act of 1974. 18 U.S.C. 2113. 18 V.S.C.
    2114.

         To obtain empirical data on the Federal tail system,
criminal defendant case files in eight Federal judicial
districts were randomly sampled. The districts sampled were
selected because they represent a cross-section of the Federal
bail system in terms of geography, criminal caseload size, and
pretrial services agency (PSA) versus non-PSA districts. The
data were collected to obtain: an overall statistical view of
each district's caseload; detention, failure tc appear, and new
crime rates; and other atatistics which would indicate the
overall eefect4 :.ness of each district's bail practices.
Findings/Conclusicns: Background infcrmation is provided on:
population and sample sizes; proportion of rotkery and drug
defendants in each district's caseload; distributi,a of crimes
within each district; profile characteristics cf defendatts in
the district sample, in the drug sample, and in the tobbery
sample; composite profile characteristics of all defendants
compared to those failing to appear and committing new crimes;
proportion of armed versus unarmed robtery; and types Cf drugs
involved in drug offenses. Appendices contain: PSi statistics,
an overview of bail results, a failure-to-appear analysis, a
new-crimes analysis, and information on the final disposition of
defendants. (RRS)

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