CRIM 3417 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deferred Adjudication, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wrench
29 Jan 2019
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Dismissal - not enough evidence/information to move forward. Diversion - dismissed under certain conditions (if you do x, y, and z, your charge will go away) Goal = rehabilitation and demonstrating responsible behavior. Drug offenses (more and more via drug courts) Deferred adjudication - resembles probation and diversion in many ways. What happens prior to trial - the role of pretrial services. Pretrial services: agencies that assist a court in deciding whom to release and whom to detain; involved in: Court efficiency - without them, court functioning would move very slowly. More likely to be convicted - lack of resources. Pretrial release and pretrial supervision - earliest attempts to utilize community-based options. Early scholars of the bail system were influential in the development of pretrial release and services. Issue of the system favoring people with more money. Use of bail to punish (prior to a guilty finding) Argued the need to consider social background and circumstances in the bail decision.
