Sandra G. Mayson

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Professor of Law

3501 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

http://https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/sgmayson/

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1.

The Scale of Misdemeanor Justice

98 Boston University Law Review 731, 2018
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2018
Megan T. Stevenson and Sandra G. Mayson
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Downloads 3,544 (7,105)
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Misdemeanors

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Bias In, Bias Out

128 Yale Law Journal 2218 (2019),, University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-35
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 01 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2019
Sandra G. Mayson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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criminal justice, algorithms, prediction, criminal law, risk assessment, bail reform, race, minorities, discrimination, civil rights, COMPAS, rearrest, inequality

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Pretrial Detention and Bail

Academy for Justice, A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna ed., 2017, Forthcoming)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-18
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2018
Megan T. Stevenson and Sandra G. Mayson
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law & procedure, pretrial detention or release, bail, recidivism, criminal justice, crime, conditions of release, required meetings with pretrial officers, drug testing, electronic monitoring, incarceration, statistical risk assessment, predictive justice, dangerousness, statistics

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The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 69, Pg. 711, 2017, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-18
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 17 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Paul S. Heaton, Sandra G. Mayson and Megan T. Stevenson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Pretrial Detention, Bail, Recidivism, Guilty Pleas

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Pretrial Detention and the Value of Liberty

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 2, 2022
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 19 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2022
Megan T. Stevenson and Sandra G. Mayson
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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pretrial detention, consequentialism, risk assessments, bail reform

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Bail at the Founding

137 Harvard Law Review 1816 (2024), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-11
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 28 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 18 May 2024
Kellen Funk and Sandra G. Mayson
Columbia University - Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Bail, Criminal Procedure, Pretrial, Eighth Amendment, Philadelphia, Jail

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Misdemeanors by the Numbers

Boston College Law Review, Vol 61, Issue 3
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 19 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Sandra G. Mayson and Megan T. Stevenson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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criminal law, misdemeanors, law enforcement, collateral consequences, race, minorities, criminal justice, probation, discrimination, bail, pretrial detention, prosecution, incarceration

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Dangerous Defendants

127 Yale Law Journal 490 (2018), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-30
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 21 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2018
Sandra G. Mayson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law and procedure, bail, pretrial release, pretrial detention, reform, risk assessment, actuarial prediction, criminal justice, predictive justice, dangerousness

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Systemic Failure To Appear in Court

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol.172, p.1, 2023, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-44
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
Lindsay Graef, Sandra G. Mayson, Aurelie Ouss and Megan T. Stevenson
University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia School of Law
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Collateral Consequences and the Preventive State

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, p. 301, 2015, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-19
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2016
Sandra G. Mayson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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collateral consequences, sentencing, punishment, predictive, preemptive, prevention, risk, dangerousness

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Brief of National Law Professors of Criminal, Procedural, and Constitutional Law, In re Humphrey, California Supreme Court, Regarding the Imposition of Money Bail and Conditions of Pretrial Release

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Feb 2019
Sandra G. Mayson and Kellen Funk
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Columbia University - Law School
Downloads 157 (405,621)
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bail, criminal procedure, pretrial, incarceration

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Detention by Any Other Name

69 Duke Law Journal 1643 (2020), University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-07
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2020
Sandra G. Mayson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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criminal law, justice, bail, pretrial detention, excessive, unaffordable, Bail Reform Act, sub rosa, detention order, constitutional law

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But What Is Personalized Law?

University of Chicago Law Review Online, 2021, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-23
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 May 2022
Sandra G. Mayson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Legal rules, individual determinations, machine learning, algorithmic decisionmaking, individualization, customization, generalization, reasonable person standard

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Boots and Bail on the Ground: Assessing the Implementation of Misdemeanor Bail Reforms in Georgia

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2020, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-09, University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-16
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 14 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Andrea Woods, Sandra G. Mayson, Lauren Sudeall, Guthrie Armstrong and Anthony Potts
Independent, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Vanderbilt University - Vanderbilt Law School, University of Georgia and University of Georgia
Downloads 125 (487,752)
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criminal justice, bail reform, bail, criminal justice reform, misdemeanor bail, Georgia

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Court No-Shows: A Systemic Issue

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-38
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 09 Aug 2024
Lindsay Graef, Sandra G. Mayson, Aurelie Ouss and Megan T. Stevenson
University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia School of Law
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courts no-shows, defendants, police officer, civilian witness, private attorney, Philadelphia, failure-to-appear, FTA, criminal cases, institutional dysfunction, domestic violence