what is a bounty hunter?

Question

what exactly do they do?

Answer 1

A bounty hunter is a person that hunts down people that have jumped their bail. The bail bondsman put up his money to get the criminal out of jail. If the criminal does not show up to court he loses his money. Therefore he sends a person to hunt them down and return them to jail.

Answer 2

In the United States legal system, the 1873 U.S. Supreme Court case (Taylor v. Taintor, 16 Wall (83 U.S. 366, 21 L.Ed. 287), is erroneously cited as having established that the person into whose custody an accused is remanded as part of the accused's bail has sweeping rights to recover that person (although this may have been accurate at the time the decision was reached, the portion cited was obiter dicta and has no binding precedential value). Most bounty hunters are employed by a bail bondsman: the bounty hunter is paid a portion of the bail the fugitive initially paid. If the fugitive successfully eludes bail, the bondsman is responsible for the remainder of their bail, not the bounty hunter.

Thus the bounty hunter is the bail bondsman's way of ensuring his clients arrive at trial. In the United States, bounty hunters catch an estimated 30,000 bail jumpers per year.[citation needed] Bounty hunters are also sometimes known as bail enforcement agents or fugitive recovery agents, which are the preferred industry and polite terms, but in common speech, they are still called "bounty hunters" or "skip tracers".

Answer 3

Bounty hunters capture fugitives and turn them over to the authorities in exchange for money.

Answer 4

They collect criminals who have jumped their bail or have been backed by a bondsman. The bounty hunter finds them and takes them to jail and collects a bounty for their efforts.

Answer 5

They work for bail bondsman, and they track down people who skipped bail and are hiding.

Answer 6

someone who hunts down criminals for the reward ! the government will pay them!

Answer 7

One who looks for chocolate covered coconut.