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- November 2022
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Monetary sanctions, also known as legal financial obligations, are state-imposed fines and fees associated with court involvement. These are the financial aspects of the criminal justice system serving variously as punishment for defendants and revenue generation for court jurisdictions. In terms of both frequency and breadth, the rise of court-based fines and fees is largely invisible to most people but has far-reaching—and long-lasting—effects for court-involved individuals and their kin. The authors contributing to this issue of Focus on Poverty draw on a growing body of scholarship to explore and explain some of the many nuances of monetary sanctions and their effects.
Criminal justice as racialized resource extraction, by Joshua Page and Joe Soss
Monetary sanctions and acquaintanceship density in rural court systems, by Gabriela Kirk, Kristina J. Thompson, Beth M. Huebner, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah K. S. Shannon
Long harm of the law: Monetary sanctions and their symbiotic harms, by Daniel J. Boches, Brittany Martin, Andrea Giuffre, Amairini Sanchez, Aubrianne L. Sutherland, and Sarah K. S. Shannon
Court fees criminalize low-income defendants, by Devah Pager, Rebecca Goldstein, Helen Ho, and Bruce Western
Categories
Court System, Family & Partnering, Family & Partnering General, Fines & Fees, Inequality & Mobility, Justice System, Place, Place General, Racial/Ethnic Inequality
Tags
Administrative Data, Cross-State Comparison, National, Qualitative Research, Race/Ethnicity, Random Assignment Evaluations, Rural, Young Men