County Dependence on Monetary Sanctions: Implications for Women’s Incarceration

O’Neill, Kate K.; Smith, Tyler Jo; Kennedy, Ian

doi:10.7758/rsf.2022.8.2.08

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“…We also study seriously the racial contours of monetary sanctions. Several articles in this volume show that Black, Latinx, and Native Americans are disproportionately processed within the criminal legal system and, as a result, carry a disproportionate burden of criminal legal debt (Sanchez et al 2022;Bing et al 2022;Stewart et al 2022;O'Neill et al 2022).…”

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Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

Harris

Pattillo

Sykes

2022

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Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

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Pattillo

Sykes

2022

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“…Just as individuals face disparate treatment when it comes to the enforcement of LFOs by police and court officials, different groups of people face different severities of consequences. A critical area of emerging research shows LFOs may be higher, more punitive, and result in more negative outcomes for certain groups, such as people who are Black or African American (Bing et al., 2022; Link, 2019), people with precarious immigration statuses (Sanchez et al., 2022), Native Americans (Stewart et al., 2022), women (O’Neill et al., 2022; Servon et al., 2021), and those living in poverty (Bing et al., 2022; Rafael & Mai, 2022; Slavinski & Spencer‐Suarez, 2021; Ward & Link, 2022). Taking an intersectional approach, studies demonstrate how some people face several factors at once that multiply the harm of legal debt.…”

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

LaScala‐Gruenewald

Paik

2023

Sociology Compass

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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 conviction and fees charge people for the "use" of courts, prisons, and other public services. With the rise of mass incarceration, millions of people across the U.S. owe billions of dollars in LFOs. Yet despite the widespread use of monetary sanctions, it was not until the last decade that research began to uncover the vast system of LFOs embedded throughout U.S. laws and understand their far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. This paper reviews recent research on LFOs across three areas:(1) the political development of LFOs, (2) their implementation and enforcement, and (3) the consequences of LFOs on people, broader social networks, and the functioning of public institutions. We conclude with recommendations for future research that explores the hidden processes connecting these three areas and accounts for the fractured nature of the U.S. government.

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

Mauri,

Nicosia,

Kilmer

2024

J Exp Criminol

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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 only assess fines that could be reasonably paid by defendants. Methods A natural experiment design using criminal records for the universe of convictions for misdemeanor arrests between July 2011–June 2015 (N = 34,700) was employed to estimate the association between the reform and the likelihood of a fine using logistic regression. Results The reform was associated with reductions in fine assessments in urban (OR, 0.63; CI, 0.39–1.04); rural, no Indian Country (OR, 0.24; CI, 0.18–0.33); and rural, part-Indian Country counties (OR, 0.24; CI, 0.18–0.32). Both American Indian and White persons experienced these reductions, but the reductions were smaller for American Indians in urban counties. Conclusions A defendant’s race and features of local court structures may shape judicial behavior in response to monetary sanctioning reforms.

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County Dependence on Monetary Sanctions: Implications for Women’s Incarceration

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

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

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

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