Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American
criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers …

Monetary sanctions mandated in state statutes include fines, fees, restitution, and other legal
costs imposed on persons convicted of crimes and other legal violations. Drawing on …

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars
have shown that criminal legal contact reduces turnout and that criminalization pushes …

Probation is the most commonly imposed correctional sanction, is often accompanied by
supplementary costs, and can be operated by the state or private companies. Private …

Research on court-imposed monetary sanctions has not yet fully examined the impact that
processes used to manage court debt have on individuals' lives. Drawing from both …

Most social scientists agree that case studies are useful for “theory building,” but
ethnographic methods papers often look to survey research for case selection strategies …

Exponential growth in order maintenance policing and associated misdemeanor sanctions
have led to disproportionate consequences for people of color. Using data from qualitative …

States increasingly look to incarcerated individuals as a source of revenue to alleviate the
fiscal burden of incarceration, which results in suing prisoners for these costs. Through …

Child support arrears and criminal monetary sanctions are two forms of state-imposed debt
that have gained increasing attention for their role in perpetuating inequality. Although past …

Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of court systems. Previous studies have focused
largely on these sanctions at the state level or solely on large urban jurisdictions. However …