Search Results for legal financial obligations

...Evan Walker Abstract Under Washington state law, legal financial obligations (LFOs) are assessed to people that “use” the criminal legal system across the state. State courts have ruled on how taxes, fees, and user charges are assessed upon residents; however, imposition of LFOs is predominantly...

... not include language making exceptions for low-income individuals, and do not exclude third parties. Suggestions for future research on bond conversion are discussed. The Hidden Practice of Utilizing Bonds to Cover Legal Financial Obligations I. Introduction Over the past decade, scholars have brought...

...Maria Katarina E. Rafael; Chris Mai Abstract In criminal courts across the country, judges assess a variety of fines, fees and other legal financial obligations (LFOs) that many defendants struggle to pay. This paper provides a summary of the authors’ longer empirical article that examines...

...Kathleen Powell Abstract This policy brief outlines findings and policy implications from a study of the correlates of legal financial obligation (LFO) debt repayment, an increasingly important area of study for two key reasons. First, the proliferation of LFO assessments can generate substantial...

... described as a pathway to an incarceration stint because of its onerous conditions and other requirements. An emerging literature is examining how one of these conditions, legal financial obligations (e.g., fines, supervision fees, restitution), affect probation outcomes. However, this research is limited...

...Jordan M. Hyatt; Synøve N. Andersen; Steven L. Chanenson Abstract Legal financial obligations serve a range of practical and ideological functions within the modern American criminal justice system. Criminal fines are punitive in nature and intended to reflect the severity of the offense as well...

... of convicted individuals are compelled to undergo. Although some of these legal financial obligations are intended to hold people accountable for criminal behavior and address crime victims’ financial losses, they also create a significant barrier to supervision success by imposing heavy economic burdens...

...-permissions. DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.1525/fsr.2022.34.2-3.188. 188 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 34, NO. 2 3 DECEMBER FEBRUARY 2022 Table 1. Prior Qualitative and Quantitative Studies on Legal Financial Obligations, Debt, and Reoffending Findings a Criminogenic effect Qualitative Quantitative b A. Harris...

... and their consequences. In turn, this work may highlight and inform legal and policy avenues for future sentencing and correctional reforms. Notes 1 K. D. Martin et al., Monetary Sanctions: Legal Financial Obligations in US Systems of Justice, 1 Ann. Rev. Criminol- ogy 471 (2018); A. Harris et al., Courtesy Stigma...

... (not regional) pattern. 12 See Menendez et al., supra note 9. 13 See N. W. Link, Paid Your Debt to Society? Legal Financial Obligations and Their Effects on Former Prisoners (Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 2017); A. N. Montes et al., An Assessment of Prisoner Reentry, Legal Financial Obligations...

... jurisdictions generate revenue and hold offenders accountable for their crimes without the unintended negative justice outcomes. If approved, the project would offer individuals credit toward legal financial obligations in exchange for participation in programs that address criminogenic needs. In the tradition...

... Time, httpswww. pacourts.us/news-and-statistics/research-and-statistics/ dashboard-table-of-contents/collection-rate-of-paymentsordered-by-common-pleas-courts (accessed Aug. 20, 2021). 21 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Board of Pardons, Legal Financial Obligations, httpswww.bop.pa.gov/Pages/Finesand...

... system became increasingly nancialized, evidenced by the widespread use of legal nancial obligations (LFOs) such as nes and fees. Financialization has shifted the costs of criminal justice functions onto defendants, creating long-term debt, increasing justice involvement, and disproportionately...

... Financial Obligations in Washington State (2008). 11 M. Cadigan & G. Kirk, On Thin Ice: Bureaucratic Processes of Monetary Sanctions and Job Insecurity, 6 Russell Sage Found. J. Social Sci. 113 (2020); S. Shannon et al., The Broad Scope and Variation of Monetary Sanctions: Evidence from Eight States, 4 UCLA...

... M. Meredith & M. Morse, Discretionary Disenfranchisement: The Case of Legal Financial Obligations, 46 J. Legal Stud. 309 (2017). 7 M. McIntire & M. H. Keller, The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traf c Stops, N.Y. Times (Oct. 31, 2021), httpswww. nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas...

.../. DOI: 10.1525/fsr.2014.26.4.242. 242 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 26, NO. 4 APRIL 2014 Providing Financial Services to Marijuana-Related Businesses This FinCEN guidance clari es how nancial institutions can provide services to marijuana-related businesses consistent with their BSA obligations...

...-growing budget item after Medicaid.3 Although these numbers are alarming, what is less widely understood is that in some cases, expenditures at corrections departments account for only a portion of the nancial obligation a state commits to when it sentences an individual to prison. Existing gures often...

...Matheson Sanchez; Shytierra Gaston Abstract Until recently, Massachusetts incarcerated criminal justice system clients solely for nonpayment of court-imposed fines and fees. This practice disproportionately penalized disadvantaged clients, further exacerbating their legal involvement. Massachusetts...

... should be established that does not require legal representation. In the past, the footprint of criminal legal debt has been largely hidden. The public, agencies, and courts have lacked adequate data to assess the social impact of legal nancial obligations resulting from police actions. Jurisdictions...

... Accumulating nancial debt due to legal sanctions is common for individuals on community supervision.6 Individuals may experience dif culties balancing their criminal justice nancial obligations with payments for basic necessities and household responsibilities.7 Financial sanctions may also serve...