The First Pretrial Release Program Began in __________ with the Manhattan

question 3

Multiple Choice

The first pretrial release program began in __________ with the Manhattan Bail Project.This project was designed to assist judges in identifying defendants who were eligible to be released on their own recognizance (ROR) .Modeled after the recognizance programs in Europe discussed in the previous section, this program became so successful that over the next 2 decades more than 200 cities had some version of pretrial release in place.

• A) 1951
• B) 1961
• C) 1971
• D) 1981

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Definitions:

Short-Term Memory

The capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Control Processes

Pertains to mechanisms or systems that regulate, guide, or manage operations or activities in various contexts such as biology, psychology, or engineering.

Long-Term Memory

The part of the information-processing system that holds memories of past experiences.

Information-Processing Theorists

Scholars who study how humans mentally process information from their environment, drawing analogies with computer processing.