Abstract
Sudden changes in criminal justice environments, such as court-imposed reductions in jail population, create pressures for adaptation by entire justice systems. Many county jails have used citation release extensively to reduce jail populations (i.e., misdemeanor suspects sign a written promise to appear in court). Local police agencies may respond in three ways: 1) they may continue to book suspects as usual; 2) they may be less likely to book misdemeanants and more likely to use field citations because of perceptions that suspects will be released at the jail anyway; 3) they may maximize field citations as part of cooperative interagency agreements. Three types of data were examined: 1) annual citation rates (1978–1988) for counties under court order and not under court order; 2) monthly police citations (1978–1988) in three counties (132 time points) under court order; and 3) interviews with law enforcement officials (N = 37) in the same three counties. Although some police agencies have adjusted their...
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