Monetary sanctions, also known as legal financial obligations (LFOs), are a highly
consequential yet underexplored element of the criminal legal system. LFOs consist of fines …

Low-level misdemeanor and traffic violations draw tens of millions of people into local courts
to pay fines and fees each year, generating billions of dollars in revenue. We examine how …

Investigations in Ferguson, Missouri, revealed that many individuals, particularly Black
people, entered the criminal justice system for relatively minor offenses, missed court …

Enrollment in and navigation of higher learning institutions as a pathway to social mobility
remains a significant challenge for many currently and formerly incarcerated people …

After featuring prominently in early law and society research, the study of subfelony
enforcement and processing was largely eclipsed by the study of mass incarceration. Of late …

In this article, we explore the experiences of people who carry monetary sanction (or penal)
debt across eight US states. Using 519 interviews with people sentenced to fines and fees …

Probation is the most commonly imposed correctional sanction, is often accompanied by
supplementary costs, and can be operated by the state or private companies. Private …

Although recent scholarship has enumerated many individual-level consequences of
criminal legal citations and sentences involving fines and fees, we know surprisingly little …

Economic sociologists have documented the rise of financialization, including credit and
debt. In the case of monetary sanctions in the criminal legal system, courts frequently extend …

We collected the abstracts of manuscripts examining job insecurity published between 1984
and 2019 and carried out a textual analysis to investigate the defining clusters, their …