ArticleAnnual review of criminology2018
Monetary Sanctions: Legal Financial Obligations in US Systems of Justice.
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- Fines, Fees, and Families: Monetary Sanctions As Stigmatized Intergenerational Exchange.The Sociological quarterly · 2024Article
- Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?Journal of experimental criminology · 2023Article
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- A legal dispute resolution intervention for patients with substance use disorders: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Proliferation of Punishment: The Centrality of Legal Fines and Fees in the Landscape of Contemporary Penology.Social problems · 2022Article
- What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022Article
- Incomparable Punishments: How Economic Inequality Contributes to the Disparate Impact of Legal Fines and Fees.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022Article
- Debtors' Blocks: How Monetary Sanctions Make Between-neighborhood Racial and Economic Inequalities Worse.Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2022Article
- Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022Article
- An Assessment of Prisoner Reentry, Legal Financial Obligations and Family Financial Support: A Focus on Fathers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
This review assesses the current state of knowledge about monetary sanctions, e.g., fines, fees, surcharges, restitution, and any other financial liability related to contact with systems of justice, which are used more widely than prison, jail, probation, or parole in the United States. The review describes the most important consequences of the punishment of monetary sanctions in the United States, which include a significant capacity for exacerbating economic inequality by race, prolonged contact and involvement with the criminal justice system, driver's license suspension, voting restrictions, damaged credit, and incarceration. Given the lack of consistent laws and policies that govern monetary sanctions, jurisdictions vary greatly in their imposition, enforcement, and collection practices of fines, fees, court costs, and restitution. A review of federally collected data on monetary sanctions reveals that a lack of consistent and exhaustive measures of monetary sanctions presents a unique problem for tracking both the prevalence and amount of legal financial obligations (LFOs) over time. We conclude with promising directions for future research and policy on monetary sanctions.
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