SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Inmates, Risk Aversion
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Cases are also consisting of multiple charges and this makes things more complex. As a result, such cases need more time and resources. Bail hearings take a long time and so adjournments have become the norm and it is this creation and normalization of adjournments that creates a risk aversion. The defense may use this as a strategy because if you have a case that may be a bad social ill, the public will have an outcry if they person is released on bail. So the decision-maker needs to balance out their options. Additionally, they use this perhaps to give the accused less time in jail. Living in remand: weinrath"s study (2009) main ndings: The cases took too long to get to trial: there were insuf cient resources in the court system. Accused using the 2 for 1 method: essentially, it was a method that would give you less time.
