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Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability

Mary Pattillo, Erica Banks, Brian Sargent, Daniel J. Boches
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (2) 57-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.2.03
Mary Pattillo
aHarold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, United States
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Erica Banks
bDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, United States
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cAssistant professor of public policy and sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
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dDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia, United States
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    • BROADENING FROM HOMELESSNESS TO HOUSING INSTABILITY
    • SHIFTING FROM INCARCERATION TO LEGAL FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS
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    • HOUSING AND LEGAL FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS, A NATIONAL PICTURE
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