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Beyond the Penal Code: The Legal Capacity of Monetary Sanctions in the Corpus of California Law

Anjuli Verma, Bryan L. Sykes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (1) 36-62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.02
Anjuli Verma
aAssistant professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States, where she also teaches in the interdisciplinary Legal Studies Program
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bChancellor’s Fellow, an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Professor, and associate professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine, United States, with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Public Health
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    Theoretical Model of the Circuitry of Legal Capacity to Produce Racial Disparities

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    Percentage of LFO Statutes in California’s Penal Code, Relative to All Other California Legislative Code Sections

    Source: Authors’ tabulation from original coding of statutes from California Legislative Information, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml (date of last coding June 8, 2016) and total counts of statutes from Westlaw Next Online Legal Research, “California Statutes & Court Rules” database search queries (effective date: June 8, 2016), https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw. Accessed September 1, 2021.

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    Distribution of LFO Statutes Across California’s Twenty-Nine Legislative Code Sections

    Source: Authors’ tabulation based on original coding of statutes from California Legislative Information, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml (date of last coding June 8, 2016) and total counts of statutes from Westlaw Next Online Legal Research, “California Statutes & Court Rules” database search queries (effective date: June 8, 2016), https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw. Accessed September 1, 2021.

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    Dispersion of Attributes of LFO Statutes, Across California’s Twenty-Nine Legislative Code Sections

    Source: Authors’ tabulation based on original coding of statutes from California Legislative Information, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml (date of last coding June 8, 2016) and total counts of statutes from Westlaw Next legal database “California Statutes & Court Rules” search queries, https://1-next-westlaw-com.oca.ucsc.edu/ (effective date: June 8, 2016).

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jan 2022, 8 (1) 36-62; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.02

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