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Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

Alexes Harris, Mary Pattillo, Bryan L. Sykes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (2) 1-33; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.01
Alexes Harris
aPresidential Term Professor of Sociology at University of Washington, United States
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Mary Pattillo
bHarold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, United States
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Bryan L. Sykes
cInclusive Excellence Term Chair, Chancellor’s Fellow, and associate professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine, United States
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