[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 …

Lifetime risk of imprisonment in the United States remains high and starkly unequal

AF Roehrkasse, C Wildeman - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
How likely are US males and females of different ethnoracial groups to be imprisoned over
the course of their lives, and how have these risks changed in recent decades? Using …

Incomparable punishments: How economic inequality contributes to the disparate impact of legal fines and fees

L Bing, B Pettit, I Slavinski - … : The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
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 …

What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research

B Friedman, A Harris, BM Huebner… - RSF: The Russell …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American
criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers …

Monetary sanctions as chronic and acute health stressors: The emotional strain of people who owe court fines and fees

A Harris, T Smith - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2022 - rsfjournal.org
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 …

Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act

HE Brown - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2023 - rsfjournal.org
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) sought to end the forced removal of Native
children from their tribes. Decades later, American Indian children are still placed in foster …

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 …

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 …