Abstract
This paper examines the influence of social and legal factors on postarrest decisions to release burglary arrestees prior to trial. The data were derived from a crime specific burglary program sponsored by the California Council on Criminal Justice during the period April 1972 to May 1973. Character istics of apprehended burglary offenders include such demographic informa tion as age, race, sex, number of crime partners involved in the incident, and the distance from the offender's residence to place of occurrence. Legal fac tors focus upon an offender's previous criminal history, including prior bur glary record, prior drug record, and the like. Applying the technique of pre dictive attribute analysis, the research focuses upon the importance of the above characteristics with regard to postarrest dispositions.
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