Rate My Professor Christine Scott-Hayward

Scott-Hayward's research specializations include pretrial justice, bail and pretrial detention, inequalities in the criminal justice system, parole and reentry, supervised release, federal sentencing, privacy in the digital age, juvenile interrogations, correctional policy, and rehabilitation. Her major publications feature the book Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System (University of California Press, 2019, co-authored with Henry F. Fradella), named a “Best of 2019” by the Vera Institute of Justice; Handbook on Pretrial Justice (Routledge, 2021, edited with J.E. Copp and S. Demuth); “Bail and Pretrial Justice in the United States: A Field of Possibility” (Annual Review of Criminology, 2022, with J. Page); “Pretrial Detention and the Decision to Impose Bail in Southern California” (Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 2018, with S. Ottone); and “Rethinking Federal Diversion: The Rise of Specialized Criminal Courts” (Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2017). She has earned multiple CSULB Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards (2017-2022, 2025-2026), CSULB College of Health & Human Services Outstanding Faculty Recognition for Research Mentorship (2022-2023), CSULB Sabbatical Leave (Fall 2019), and CSULB Barnes Fellowship (2019), among other honors and grants. Scott-Hayward serves as Editor of the Criminal Law Bulletin and has contributed to various academic committees and public scholarship.