A pretrial release policy based on risk assessment would reduce unnecessary incarceration, increase racial fairness, and save money. (2025)
Stephania L. Hayes1and Jennifer L. Skeem
Publication Author Lina Montoya
Racial disparity in federal pretrial detention recommendations: Trends over two decades and association with risk assessment implementation (2024)
Stephania L. Hayes1and Jennifer L. Skeem
Understanding racial disparities in pretrial detention recommendations to shape policy reform. (2023)
Stephania L. Hayes1and Jennifer L. Skeem
Place Matters: Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention Recommendations Across the U.S. (2023)
Place Matters: Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention Recommendations Across the U.S. (2023) Abstract: Federal pretrial services officers assess defendants and make influential recommendations that defendants be either released or detained, based on their threat to community safety and risk of…
Understanding Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention Recommendations to Shape Policy Reform (2022)
Understanding Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention Recommendations to Shape Policy Reform (2022) Abstract: Research Summary: Federal pretrial services and probation officers assess defendants and make influential recommendations that defendants be either released or detained, based on their threat to community…
Estimators for the value of the optimal dynamic treatment rule with application to criminal justice interventions (2022)
Lina M. Montoya , Mark J. van der Laan , Jennifer L. Skeem and Maya L. Petersen
The Optimal Dynamic Treatment Rule SuperLearner: Considerations, performance, and application to criminal justice interventions. (2022)
Montoya, L., van derLaan, M., Luedtke, A., Skeem, J., Coyle, J. & Petersen, M. (in press).
Comparing Public Safety Outcomes for Traditional Probation vs Specialty Mental Health Probation (2017)
Skeem, J., Manchak, S., & Montoya, L.
Comparing costs of traditional vs. specialty probation for people with serious mental illness (2018)
Skeem, J., Montoya, L., & Manchak, S.