Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Collegio Carlo Alberto Website

Giovanni Mastrobuoni is Carlo Alberto Chair at Collegio Carlo Alberto and Professor of Economics at the University of Turin. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

Voting History

Pretrial detention

Reducing the number of people detained pretrial will lead to a net increase in crime in the medium- to long-term.

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Neutral/No Opinion 1
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Disagree 7
Comments

That depends on whether the marginal arrestee who is put in pretrial detention is eventually sentenced to prison time or not.

Ending the use of cash bail will meaningfully reduce the number of people detained pretrial.

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Neutral/No Opinion 1
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Agree 7
Comments

I know little about the US cash bail system, but if judges use cash bails to discipline defendants the number may also increase.

Using risk assessment to inform detention decisions will meaningfully reduce the number of people detained pretrial.

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Neutral/No Opinion 1
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Neutral/No Opinion 5
Comments

More information will certainly be useful to pinpoint the marginal arrestee who should be put in pretrail detention, but changing the threshold may also lead to an increase in people detained pretrial.