Mia Bird
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mia Bird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bird |
| SIGNATURE | BIRD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bail reform and pretrial release: Examining the implementation of In re Humphrey
Research Summary Pretrial reform is driving criminal justice policy debates across the nation. The In re Humphrey decision required the San Francisco County criminal court to set bail levels based on defendant ability to pay rather than the county bail schedule. Under this new policy, the rate of pretrial detention fell by 11%. We find defendants released pretrial were less likely to be convicted (a decline of 3 percentage points) in the post‐ Hu…
A Population-Level Examination of Incarcerated Women and Mothers Before and After the California Public Safety Realignment Act
Impact of defelonizing drug possession on recidivism
Research Summary California's Proposition 47 (Prop 47), passed in November 2014, sought to scale back punishment for selected drug and property offenses, making them misdemeanors rather than felonies. Although others have examined the impacts of Proposition 47 on crime rates, here we examine the impacts on a range of recidivism outcomes specifically for individuals convicted for drug possession offenses. We focus on the defelonization of drug pos…
Next Steps in Jail and Prison Downsizing
Realignment and Recidivism
California's 2011 Public Safety Realignment created an unprecedented policy experiment by transferring the authority over lower-level felony offenders from the state correctional system to fifty-eight county jail and probation systems. While centered in California, these changes are reflective of an ongoing national conversation about the appropriate level of government at which to focus crime control efforts. In this article, we first situate Re…
Next Steps in Jail and Prison Downsizing
Realignment and Recidivism
California's 2011 Public Safety Realignment created an unprecedented policy experiment by transferring the authority over lower-level felony offenders from the state correctional system to fifty-eight county jail and probation systems. While centered in California, these changes are reflective of an ongoing national conversation about the appropriate level of government at which to focus crime control efforts. In this article, we first situate Re…
Impact of defelonizing drug possession on recidivism
Research Summary California's Proposition 47 (Prop 47), passed in November 2014, sought to scale back punishment for selected drug and property offenses, making them misdemeanors rather than felonies. Although others have examined the impacts of Proposition 47 on crime rates, here we examine the impacts on a range of recidivism outcomes specifically for individuals convicted for drug possession offenses. We focus on the defelonization of drug pos…
Realignment and Recidivism
California's 2011 Public Safety Realignment created an unprecedented policy experiment by transferring the authority over lower-level felony offenders from the state correctional system to fifty-eight county jail and probation systems. While centered in California, these changes are reflective of an ongoing national conversation about the appropriate level of government at which to focus crime control efforts. In this article, we first situate Re…
Next Steps in Jail and Prison Downsizing
Impact of defelonizing drug possession on recidivism
Research Summary California's Proposition 47 (Prop 47), passed in November 2014, sought to scale back punishment for selected drug and property offenses, making them misdemeanors rather than felonies. Although others have examined the impacts of Proposition 47 on crime rates, here we examine the impacts on a range of recidivism outcomes specifically for individuals convicted for drug possession offenses. We focus on the defelonization of drug pos…
A Population-Level Examination of Incarcerated Women and Mothers Before and After the California Public Safety Realignment Act
Bail reform and pretrial release: Examining the implementation of In re Humphrey
Research Summary Pretrial reform is driving criminal justice policy debates across the nation. The In re Humphrey decision required the San Francisco County criminal court to set bail levels based on defendant ability to pay rather than the county bail schedule. Under this new policy, the rate of pretrial detention fell by 11%. We find defendants released pretrial were less likely to be convicted (a decline of 3 percentage points) in the post‐ Hu…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Prison (2 works)