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 …

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 …

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 …

Monetary sanctions have long been a part of the US criminal justice system but have
received increasing attention from the public as well as legal scholars and social science …

Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American
criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers …

The American legal system assumes that assigning decision-making authority to juries
imports a representation of community values into legal decisions. This assumption, though …

Research on court-imposed monetary sanctions has not yet fully examined the impact that
processes used to manage court debt have on individuals' lives. Drawing from both …

The importance of monetary sanctions as a topic of sociological inquiry derives from both
their ubiquity in American criminal justice and the socioeconomic realities of many people …

Over seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their
criminal records often following them for life and affecting access to higher education, jobs …

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