CJ ST 240 Lecture 3: CJ 240 - Exam 3
2 Nov 2016
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Bail/bond: a legal agreement or promise that requires the court appearance of a criminal defendant. You have to pay to get out of jail. E. g. , put up their parents house to guarantee the guy goes to court. Sign your name to get out of jail. Failure to appear to court leads to a warrant for their arrest. Arrest report: what you did, setting, weather, time of day, why they responded to the situation, what the person was doing etc. Unofficially appears in court or loiters in jail lobby. Usually charge 15% of total bond as fee. Bounty hunter: a roguish, quasi-official person who tracks down bail absconders and returns them to jail/bail agents. Increasingly assessed by pretrial service personnel or bond commissioners. Obtain self-reported address, employment, mental health, substance abuse/treatment, and criminal histories. Supplemented with local, state, and national criminal history information. Integrated automated fingerprint identification system (afis) and national. Crime information center (ncic): system with 74 million criminal histories.
