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Pay or Display: Monetary Sanctions and the Performance of Accountability and Procedural Integrity in New York and Illinois Courts

Karin D. Martin, Kimberly Spencer-Suarez, Gabriela Kirk
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (1) 128-147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.06
Karin D. Martin
aAssistant professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, United States
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Kimberly Spencer-Suarez
bDoctoral candidate at the Columbia School of Social Work, United States
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Gabriela Kirk
cDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, United States
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