Child support arrears and criminal monetary sanctions are two forms of state-imposed debt
that have gained increasing attention for their role in perpetuating inequality. Although past …

Correctional officers in the United States experience severe work-related stressors and are
generally physically unwell compared to similar public employees. An innovative and new …

This multi-method paper presents a model of individual and contextual variation in commutation,
a form of clemency that lessens the severity of criminal sentences. In the contemporary …

Native Americans are disproportionately affected by the criminal legal system, yet comparative
analyses of criminal legal outcomes and experiences among racial and ethnic groups …

The impetus for a more public criminology builds upon a great tradition of engaged scholarship
within our field and powerful calls in related fields like sociology (Burawoy 2005). There …

Drug courts are widely praised as a therapeutic alternative to mass incarceration. Using
ethnographic discourse analysis, our intersectional comparison of a Midwestern court …

Though incarceration has almost always been a core aspect of punishment in the United
States, a critical consideration of the basic nature of prison environments is often omitted from …

The United States is home to the world’s largest correctional system where the majority of
released ex-convicts reoffend. Consequently, accessing successful methods of reducing …

Prior research has yet to address how criminal legal system actors take parenthood into
account when imposing and enforcing LFOs. Drawing on evidence from 205 semi-structured …

This study examines the intergenerational consequences of court-imposed monetary sanctions
for parents and children. Research on punishment and families has generally focused on …