Sensemaking in the legal system: A comparative case study of changes to monetary sanction laws

T Smith, KJ Thompson, M Cadigan - RSF: The Russell Sage …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Legal scholars have long studied why laws are implemented differently across local court
contexts. Key to understanding this localized variation is understanding how new laws are …

Pay or display: Monetary sanctions and the performance of accountability and procedural integrity in New York and Illinois courts

KD Martin, K Spencer-Suarez, G Kirk - RSF: The Russell Sage …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
This article proposes the centrality of procedural integrity—or fidelity to local norms of case
processing—to the post-sentencing adjudication of monetary sanctions. We draw on insights …

County dependence on monetary sanctions: Implications for women's incarceration

KK O'Neill, T Smith, I Kennedy - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Although men's incarceration rates have declined in the United States, women's have stayed
steady and even risen in some areas. At the same time, courts have increased their use of …

Punishing Immigrants: The Consequences of Monetary Sanctions in the Crimmigration System

A Sanchez, M Cadigan, D Abels-Sullivan… - RSF: The Russell Sage …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Research on crimmigration—the intersection where criminal and immigration law meet—
shows that immigrants are increasingly punished and deported as a consequence of a …

Legal financial obligations in the United States: A review of recent research

A LaScala‐Gruenewald, L Paik - Sociology Compass, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the United States, legal financial obligations (LFOs) include many types of
monetary sanctions. For example, fines are tied to specific offenses and imposed at …

[HTML][HTML] Who benefits from criminal legal reform? A natural experiment to assess racial disparities in a policy targeting monetary sanctions

AI Mauri, N Nicosia, B Kilmer - Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2024 - Springer
Objective To examine disparities in court fines between American Indian and White
convicted persons before and after a South Dakota reform, which trained court personnel to …

Can Electronic Monitoring Fix Mass Incarceration?: Understanding the Role of Electronic Monitoring in Local Policy Reform Efforts

G Kirk - 2022 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines the use of electronic monitoring (EM) technologies within the US
criminal legal system in the context of broader efforts to reform the system. In the wake of …