Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America

Bryan L. Sykes; Meghan Ballard; Andrea Giuffre; Rebecca Goodsell; Daniela Kaiser; Vicente Celestino Mata; Justin Sola

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 1 148-178

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan Ballard, Andrea Giuffre, Rebecca Goodsell, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, and Justin Sola. 2022. “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(1): 148–78. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07. This research was funded by a grant to the University of Washington from Arnold Ventures (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. Partial support for this research came from a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant, P2C HD042828, to the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. This research was also supported by research funds from the Council on Research, Computing and Libraries at the University of California–Irvine. Direct correspondence to: Bryan L. Sykes, at blsykes@uci.edu, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, 3317 Social Ecology II, Irvine, California 92697, 949-824-9583, United States. 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.

Author Information

Bryan L. Sykes^a,
Meghan Ballard^b,
Andrea Giuffre^c,
Rebecca Goodsell^d,
Daniela Kaiser^e,
Vicente Celestino Mata^f and
Justin Sola^g

^aChancellor’s Fellow, an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Professor, and an associate professor of Criminology, Law and Society (and by courtesy, Sociology & Public Health) at the University of California, Irvine, United States
^bDoctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, United States
^cDoctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States
^dDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, United States
^eDoctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
^fDoctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, United States
^gDoctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, United States