ArticleJournal of experimental criminology2025
Who benefits from criminal legal reform? A natural experiment to assess racial disparities in a policy targeting monetary sanctions.
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- 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
- Mortality Disparities Among Arrestees by Race, Sentencing Disposition, and Place.JAMA health forum · 2024Observational
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Abstract
Objective: To examine disparities in court fines between American Indian and White convicted persons before and after a South Dakota reform, which trained court personnel to only assess fines that could be reasonably paid by defendants. Methods: A natural experiment design using criminal records for the universe of convictions for misdemeanor arrests between July 2011-June 2015 ( Results: The reform was associated with reductions in fine assessments in urban (OR, 0.63; CI, 0.39-1.04); rural, no Indian Country (OR, 0.24; CI, 0.18-0.33); and rural, part-Indian Country counties (OR, 0.24; CI, 0.18-0.32). Both American Indian and White persons experienced these reductions, but the reductions were smaller for American Indians in urban counties. Conclusions: A defendant's race and features of local court structures may shape judicial behavior in response to monetary sanctioning reforms. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11292-023-09597-3.
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