[PDF][PDF] Studying the system of monetary sanctions

A Harris, M Pattillo, BL Sykes - … Sage Foundation Journal of the Social …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
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 …

Reinforcing the Web of Municipal Courts: Evidence and Implications Post-Ferguson

BM Huebner, A Giuffre - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Investigations in Ferguson, Missouri, revealed that many individuals, particularly Black
people, entered the criminal justice system for relatively minor offenses, missed court …

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 …

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 …

Unpredictable and monetized contact with the police: Race, avoidance behaviors, and modified activity spaces

A Giuffre, BM Huebner - Criminology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exponential growth in order maintenance policing and associated misdemeanor sanctions
have led to disproportionate consequences for people of color. Using data from qualitative …

The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic

HM Harris - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2023 - rsfjournal.org
The criminal justice system confronted unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19
pandemic. In response, court systems nationwide quickly instituted policies to enable …

Justice by geography: The role of monetary sanctions across communities

G Kirk, KJ Thompson, BM Huebner, C Uggen… - RSF: The Russell …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of court systems. Previous studies have focused
largely on these sanctions at the state level or solely on large urban jurisdictions. However …

Beyond the Penal Code: The Legal Capacity of Monetary Sanctions in the Corpus of California Law

A Verma, BL Sykes - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Knowledge about legal financial obligations in American punishment has been largely
confined to criminal law and the penal codes of a few states. Yet in the nation's most …

[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 …

Monetary sanctions in the age of mass incarceration: addressing the harms of mass criminal legal debt

M Cadigan, A Harris, T Smith - Beyond Bars, 2023 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Monetary sanctions (legal financial obligations, or LFOs) are the fines, fees, surcharges,
interest, and restitution imposed by the legal system on people who are issued citations or …