ArticleThe Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF2022
Monetary Sanctions as Chronic and Acute Health Stressors: The Emotional Strain of People Who Owe Court Fines and Fees.
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- Intersectional structural oppression as a fundamental cause: Reflections on implementing a medical-legal partnership project.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- 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 · 2024Article
- "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
- Stress Due to Inflation: Changes over Time, Correlates, and Coping Strategies among Working-Age Adults in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 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
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Abstract
In this article, we explore the experiences of people who carry monetary sanction (or penal) debt across eight U.S. states. Using 519 interviews with people sentenced to fines and fees, we analyze the mental and emotional aspects of their experiences. Situating our analysis within research on the social determinants of health and the stress universe, we suggest that monetary sanctions create an overwhelmingly palpable sense of fear, frustration, anxiety, and despair. We theorize the ways in which monetary sanctions function as both acute and chronic health stressors for people who are unable to pay off their debts, highlight the mechanisms linking penal debt with mental and emotional burdens, and generalize our findings using national data from the U.S. Federal Reserve. We find that the system of monetary sanctions generates a great deal of stress and strain that becomes an internalized punishment affecting many realms of people's lives.
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