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What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research

Brittany Friedman, Alexes Harris, Beth M. Huebner, Karin D. Martin, Becky Pettit, Sarah K.S. Shannon, Bryan L. Sykes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (1) 221-243; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.10
Brittany Friedman
aAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, United States
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Alexes Harris
bPresidential Term Professor of Sociology at University of Washington, United States
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Beth M. Huebner
cProfessor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States. United States
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Karin D. Martin
dAssistant professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, United States
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Becky Pettit
eBarbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center
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Sarah K.S. Shannon
fAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Georgia, United States
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Bryan L. Sykes
gInclusive Excellence Term Chair Professor, Chancellor’s Fellow, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (and, by courtesy, Sociology and Public Health) at the University of California, Irvine, United States
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vol. 8 no. 1 221-243
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.10

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2377-8253
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2377-8261
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  • Published online January 1, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Friedman, Brittany, Alexes Harris, Beth M. Huebner, Karin D. Martin, Becky Pettit, Sarah K.S. Shannon, and Bryan L. Sykes. 2022. “What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(1): 221–43. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.10 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, P2CHD042828, to the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. This research was also supported by grant, P2CHD042849, Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Authorship is alphabetical. Direct correspondence to: Becky Pettit, at bpettit@utexas.edu, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 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.

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  1. Brittany Friedmana,
  2. Alexes Harrisb,
  3. Beth M. Huebnerc,
  4. Karin D. Martind,
  5. Becky Pettite,
  6. Sarah K.S. Shannonf and
  7. Bryan L. Sykesg
  1. aAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, United States
  2. bPresidential Term Professor of Sociology at University of Washington, United States
  3. cProfessor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States. United States
  4. dAssistant professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, United States
  5. eBarbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center
  6. fAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Georgia, United States
  7. gInclusive Excellence Term Chair Professor, Chancellor’s Fellow, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (and, by courtesy, Sociology and Public Health) at the University of California, Irvine, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Becky Pettit, (bpettit{at}utexas.edu)
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