What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research
Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers important insight into the law governing monetary sanctions, how they are levied, and how their imposition affects inequality....
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| author | Brittany Friedman Alexes Harris Beth M. Huebner Karin D. Martin Becky Pettit Sarah K.S. Shannon Bryan L. Sykes |
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| description | Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers important insight into the law governing monetary sanctions, how they are levied, and how their imposition affects inequality. Monetary sanctions are assessed for a wide range of contacts with the criminal legal system ranging from felony convictions to alleged traffic violations with important variability in law and practice across states. These differences allow for the identification of features of law, policy, and practice that differentially shape access to justice and equality before the law. Common practices undermine individuals’ rights and fuel inequality in the effects of unpaid monetary sanctions. These observations lead us to offer a number of specific recommendations to improve the administration of justice, mitigate some of the most harmful effects of monetary sanctions, and advance future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc5191be54624e8f809d5fc97678e44c2022-12-21T18:33:40ZengRussell Sage FoundationRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences2377-82532377-82612022-01-0181221243https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.10What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and ResearchBrittany Friedman0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-9134Alexes Harris1 Beth M. Huebner2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-3889 Karin D. Martin3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1094-6425 Becky Pettit4Sarah K.S. Shannon5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-5850Bryan L. Sykes6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9980-8952University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Missouri-St. LouisUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Texas at AustinUniversity of GeorgiaBryan L. SykesMonetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers important insight into the law governing monetary sanctions, how they are levied, and how their imposition affects inequality. Monetary sanctions are assessed for a wide range of contacts with the criminal legal system ranging from felony convictions to alleged traffic violations with important variability in law and practice across states. These differences allow for the identification of features of law, policy, and practice that differentially shape access to justice and equality before the law. Common practices undermine individuals’ rights and fuel inequality in the effects of unpaid monetary sanctions. These observations lead us to offer a number of specific recommendations to improve the administration of justice, mitigate some of the most harmful effects of monetary sanctions, and advance future research.monetary sanctionslfospolicyabolitiondatafines and fees |
| spellingShingle | Brittany Friedman Alexes Harris Beth M. Huebner Karin D. Martin Becky Pettit Sarah K.S. Shannon Bryan L. Sykes What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences monetary sanctions lfos policy abolition data fines and fees |
| title | What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research |
| title_full | What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research |
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