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Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

Brittany Friedman, Mary Pattillo
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 174-196; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.08
Brittany Friedman
Assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University
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vol. 5 no. 1 174-196
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.08

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2377-8253
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  • Published online February 1, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Friedman, Brittany, and Mary Pattillo. 2019. “Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(1): 173–96. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.08. This research was funded by a grant to the University of Washington from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Alexes Harris, PI). We thank the faculty and graduate student collaborators of the Multi-State Study of Monetary Sanctions for their intellectual contributions to the project. We thank the editors of and contributors to this RSF volume for their feedback. Direct correspondence to: Mary Pattillo at m-pattillo@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago Ave., Evanston, IL 60208. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Brittany Friedman and
  2. Mary Pattillo
  1. Assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University
  2. Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University
  1. Correspondence author:
    Mary Pattillo, (m-pattillo{at}northwestern.edu)
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    • THE NEOLIBERAL LOGICS OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CARCERAL EXPANSION
    • RESEARCH ON MONETARY SANCTIONS
    • SETTING, DATA, AND METHODS
    • WHAT ARE DEFENDANTS EXPECTED TO PAY FOR AND WHY?
    • WHAT ACCOMMODATIONS ARE MADE FOR DEFENDANTS’ ABILITY TO PAY?
    • WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR NOT PAYING?
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