Monetary Sanctions as Chronic and Acute Health Stressors: The Emotional Strain of People Who Owe Court Fines and Fees

Alexes Harris; Tyler Smith

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.02

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 2 36-56

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Harris, Alexes, and Tyler Smith. 2022. “Monetary Sanctions as Chronic and Acute Health Stressors: The Emotional Strain of People Who Owe Court Fines and Fees.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(2): 36–56. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.02. We are thankful to the reviewers for their substantive and theoretical suggestions for strengthening our analysis. 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, P2C HD042828, to the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. Direct correspondence to: Alexes Harris, at yharris@uw.edu, Department of Sociology, Box 353340, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States; and Tyler Smith, at tjsmith1@uw.edu, University of Washington, 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.

Author Information

Alexes Harris^a and
Tyler Smith^b

^aUW Presidential Term Professor and sociology professor at the University of Washington, United States
^bDoctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington, United States