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Incomparable Punishments: How Economic Inequality Contributes to the Disparate Impact of Legal Fines and Fees

Lindsay Bing, Becky Pettit, Ilya Slavinski
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (2) 118-136; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.06
Lindsay Bing
aDoctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States
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Becky Pettit
bBarbara 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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cClinical assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, United States
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