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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (1) 148-178; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07
Bryan L. Sykes
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
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Meghan Ballard
bDoctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, United States
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Andrea Giuffre
cDoctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States
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Rebecca Goodsell
dDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, United States
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Daniela Kaiser
eDoctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
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Vicente Celestino Mata
fDoctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, United States
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Justin Sola
gDoctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, United States
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    A Theoretical Model of Micro and Macro Financial Double Dealing (FDD)

    Source: Authors’ theoretical conceptualization.

    Note: Dollar signs are not to scale of federal, state, or local fiscal apportionment, as well as individual payment amounts; instead, these dollar signs represent the disproportionate flow of financial revenue from governments to individuals to institutions (micro FDD), and the financial dynamics inherent in the collection and redistribution of monetary sanctions, inter- and intra-institutionally (macro FDD), given state statutes that govern the dispersal of collected LFOs to other agencies and institutions.

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    Log-Odds of Having Any Public Assistance Associated with Criminal Justice Debt

    Source: Authors’ tabulation based on 2019 SHED data (Federal Reserve 2020).

    Note: Non-Hispanic Whites, married, less than a high school education, household income below $20,000, and New England region are the reference categories. All models include state fixed effects, and standard errors are clustered on state. For full-model estimates, see online appendices 1 and 2. N = 12,014.

    ***p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 8 (1)
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Bryan L. Sykes, Meghan Ballard, Andrea Giuffre, Rebecca Goodsell, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, Justin Sola
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jan 2022, 8 (1) 148-178; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07

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Bryan L. Sykes, Meghan Ballard, Andrea Giuffre, Rebecca Goodsell, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, Justin Sola
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jan 2022, 8 (1) 148-178; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07
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