Monetary Bail Expert Available for Media Covering Bail Reform

Published August 28, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LONG BEACH, Calif. (Aug. 28, 2018) – A faculty member at Long Beach State University who has studied the monetary bail system in Southern California is available to speak about Gov. Jerry Brown signing into law Senate Bill 10, which eliminates monetary bail in California.

Earlier this month, Scott-Hayward published a paper with then undergraduate student Sarah Ottone about the decision-making process judges make when mulling whether to grant defendants bail.

Christine Scott-Hayward is an assistant professor of law, criminology and criminal justice at Long Beach State University. She teaches classes on corrections, criminal courts and judicial procedures, and delinquency and juvenile justice. Scott-Hayward can be reached at Christine.Scott-Hayward@csulb.edu.

Scott-Hayward has a paper on pretrial detention. She also has a Stanford Law Review essay "Punishing Poverty."