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County Dependence on Monetary Sanctions: Implications for Women’s Incarceration

Kate K. O’Neill, Tyler Smith, Ian Kennedy
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (2) 157-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.08
Kate K. O’Neill
aPh.D. students of sociology at the University of Washington, United States
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