Racial and ethnic disparity in pretrial criminal processing

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Distortion of Justice: How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes (2018, background): “The most recent information on the percentage of convicted jail inmates with a drug sentence is from James (2004).”
Let My People Go: Ethnic In‐Group Bias in Judicial Decisions—Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment (2010, unknown): “It is often suggested that lack of information drive judges to rely on attributions linked to defendants' race as a mechanism to reduce uncertainty (Albonetti 1991; Bridges and Steen 1998; Schlesinger 2005; Demuth and Steffensmeier 2004).”
Race and Cumulative Discrimination in the Prosecution of Criminal Defendants (2013, methodology): “…minorities are directly disadvantaged at these decision points (e.g., Demuth, 2003; Demuth & Steffensmeier, 2004; Freiburger, Marcum, & Pierce, 2010; Schlesinger, 2005), others finding no evidence of race directly influencing pretrial decisions (Albonetti et al., 1989; Turner, Secret, & Johnson,…”
The Failure of Race Neutral Policies: How Mandatory Terms and Sentencing Enhancements Contribute to Mass Racialized Incarceration (2011, methodology): “Because prior research shows that criminal processing often differs by both offense type and race (Crawford, 2000; Schlesinger, 2005; Spohn & Cederblom, 1991), the analysis is disaggregated by both of these variables.”