ArticleSociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)2022
Debtors' Blocks: How Monetary Sanctions Make Between-neighborhood Racial and Economic Inequalities Worse.
Article in Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Silver sanctions: Legal financial obligations in an aging population.Advances in life course research · 2025Article
- "It's two separate systems that … keep you under a thumb": dual debt in the child support and criminal legal systems.Law & society review · 2024Article
- The long reach of juvenile and criminal legal debt: How monetary sanctions shape legal cynicism and adultification.Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- Clearing cannabis criminal records: A survey of criminal record expungement availability and accessibility among US States and Washington DC that decriminalized or legalized cannabis.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Article
- Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022Article
- Payday lenders and premature mortality.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Monetary Sanctions as Chronic and Acute Health Stressors: The Emotional Strain of People Who Owe Court Fines and Fees.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although recent scholarship has enumerated many individual-level consequences of criminal legal citations and sentences involving fines and fees, we know surprisingly little about the structural consequences of monetary sanctions or legal financial obligations (LFOs). We use social disorganization and critical race theories to examine neighborhood-level associations between and among LFO sentence amounts, poverty, and racial and ethnic demographics. Using longitudinal data from the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, and the American Community Survey, we find LFOs are more burdensome in high-poverty communities and of color, and that per-capita rates of LFOs sentenced are associated with increased future poverty rates across all neighborhoods.
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