Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2015--2016 Report

Fain, Terry; Turner, Susan

doi:10.7249/rr1908

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“…To estimate the costs of arrests, we follow Fishbane et al. (2020) and Fain and Turner (2017) and assume that an arrest actively takes 8 hours of police time, 1 hour of a district attorney's time, and 2 hours of a pretrial officer's time. Next, we obtain estimates of salaries for police officers and assistant district attorneys, from Transparent California.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can text messages reduce incarceration in rural and vulnerable populations?

Owens

Sloan

2023

J Policy Anal Manage

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Reducing failures to appear (FTA) in court is a top priority for criminal justice practitioners and advocates. However, existing work on reducing FTAs through text message reminders focuses on large urban jurisdictions and defendants who are housed. Using a field study in Shasta County, California, we evaluate whether text message outreach can increase court appearances for housed and unhoused populations. We find housed defendants randomly assigned to the treatment group were 10% less likely to miss their next scheduled court date than defendants in the control group. We find no statistical difference in the FTA rate of unhoused individuals assigned to treatment or control groups, and cannot rule out large positive or negative effects. We find that improving the quality of contact information in court records could lead to large reductions in FTAs. Partnering with local social service providers may not, but more research is needed.

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confidence: 99%