New Bail Regimes: Reconceptualising Risk to Reduce Remand Imprisonment

在澳大利亚，超过三分之一的囚犯还押候审，是20年前的两倍。该项目旨在调查新保释制度下的风险管理如何影响处于社会劣势的被告。它使用创新的批判性犯罪学方法，产生关于刑事司法行为者如何解释和应对保释决策过程中的风险的亟需知识，以及保释条件和还押监禁的“亲身”经验。预期结果包括在保释的背景下对风险进行概念化的新框架。这应该会给寻求减少监禁及其对弱势群体影响的政策制定者和法律改革者带来重大好处。

More than one in three prisoners in Australia are on remand, double that of two decades ago. This project aims to investigate how risk management in new bail regimes affects accused individuals experiencing social disadvantage. It employs innovative critical criminological methods to generate much-needed knowledge about how criminal justice actors interpret and respond to risk in the bail decision-making process, and 'lived' experiences of bail conditions and remand imprisonment. Expected outcomes include a new framework for conceptualising risk in the context of bail. This should bring significant benefits to policymakers and law reformers seeking to reduce imprisonment and its impacts on disadvantaged groups.