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ArticleThe Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF2022

Incomparable Punishments: How Economic Inequality Contributes to the Disparate Impact of Legal Fines and Fees.

Lindsay Bing, Becky Pettit, Ilya Slavinski

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Article in The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The long-term impact of debt relief for indigent defendants in a misdemeanor court.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  4. What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022
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  5. Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lindsay BingLindsay Bing is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. Becky Pettit is the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center. Ilya Slavinski is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, United States.
Becky PettitLindsay Bing is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. Becky Pettit is the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center. Ilya Slavinski is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, United States.
Ilya SlavinskiLindsay Bing is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. Becky Pettit is the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center. Ilya Slavinski is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, United States.

Funding

Training Program in Population StudiesT32HD007081 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI Aprile Dawn Benner, Abigail Mae Weitzman · 1985 to 2026
$6.8M
Scientific & Technical CoreP2CHD042849 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Elizabeth T. Gershoff · 2017 to 2026
$5.2M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD042849NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007081
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 standardized legal fines and fees for low-level charges induce disparate treatment and result in disparate impact. Using a mixed-methods approach that incorporates administrative court records as well as interviews with criminal defendants from Texas, we find that although the majority of defendants readily pay for and conclude their case, African American, Latinx, and economically disadvantaged defendants spend disproportionate amounts of money and time resolving theirs. Analysis of criminal case records illustrates the disparate impact of monetary sanctions through the accrual of debt and time spent resolving a charge. Interviews reveal irreconcilable tensions between American ideals of equality in sentencing and the meaning and value of money and time in an increasingly unequal society.

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criminal legal systemeconomic inequalityinequalitymarketizationmisdemeanorsmonetary sanctions

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PMID35463483
PMCPMC9030976

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