Search Results for monetary sanctions

... these benefits from being fully realized. The current paper discusses the implications of these reforms and suggests future research directions and policy developments that would help ensure fairer treatment for all clients. Reforming Monetary Sanctions: Implications of the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform...

...Andrea Giuffre; Beth M. Huebner Abstract Although there is a burgeoning body of research on the costs of a criminal conviction, very little scholarship explores the ways in which monetary sanctions are differentially assessed across offense types. Individuals convicted of sexual offenses...

...Ebony L. Ruhland; Katie Leigh; Amber Petkus Abstract Monetary sanctions exist in every part of the criminal legal system, including community corrections. Fines, fees, restitution, surcharges, and other court costs are included as monetary sanctions. Prior research has highlighted the types...

...Nathan W. Link Abstract Amid the growing interest in the legal and collateral consequences of criminal justice contact is a focus on monetary sanctions, including a full accounting of their impacts on individuals, families, communities, and system-related goals. Prior studies have highlighted...

...-respecting approach to monetary sanctions. Overall, the results are grim—not nearly enough has changed and some states are trending in the wrong direction. On the other hand, there has been widespread progress on some issues. There are reasons for optimism, and there are lessons in the data for activists who...

...Katelyn J. B. King; Amber Petkus; Ebony L. Ruhland Abstract Every state relies on fines and fees to defray the costs of community supervision, and many rely on a combination of monetary sanctions and government aid to operate these programs. Texas is one such state that designs their system...

.... This paper expands on the history of fines in Anglo-American law to outline the development of the dual purpose of criminal monetary sanctions: punishment and government revenue. This paper uses the statutory and other legally-determined characteristics of taxes and user charges to characterize...

... – vehicle registration and maintenance, no or expired license, plates, or insurance – as opposed to only 24.7% for behavioral violations such as speeding, reckless driving, and DUI. Those issued warrants for failure to pay monetary sanctions are disproportionately people who are Black and from the poorest...

...Jordan M. Hyatt; Nathan W. Link Abstract Financial and monetary obligations, a class of sanctions that includes fines, restitution, and a range of fees, are increasingly recognized as playing a significant role in the operation of the justice system, the lives of the people against whom...

... of monetary sanctions that typically include criminal nes, restitution, fees, and assorted other costs.1 Often referred to collectively as LFOs, these types of sanctions and assessments have become increasingly prevalent in the American criminal justice context.2 The justi cations for this shift are both...

... criminal justice debt weighs disproportionately upon those with the least ability to pay, it has generally been excluded from bankruptcy s fresh start. This exclusion has been grounded on the belief that allowing discharge of monetary sanctions would interfere unduly with important government interests...

... by Indigent Status JEFFREY T. WARD* Temple University NATHAN W. LINK Rutgers University Camden I. Introduction Across the United States, there has been a renewed interest in studying the application of monetary sanctions such as nes, costs, and restitution in criminal cases.1 The small amount of research...

... and state levels to avoid imposing LFO debts in excess of what people especially socioeconomically disadvantaged people can reasonably repay. Notes 1 K. D. Martin et al., Monetary Sanctions: Legal Financial Obliga- tions in US Systems of Justice, 1 Ann. Rev. Criminology 471 (2018). 2 A. Harris, Russell Sage...

...), httpwww.sentencingproject.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/02/Incarcerated-Women-and-Girls1980-2016.pdf. 2 M. Cadigan & G. Kirk, On Thin Ice: Bureaucratic Processes of Monetary Sanctions and Job Insecurity, 6 Russell Sage Found. J. Soc. Sci. 113 (2020); A. Harris, Russell Sage Foundation, A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions...

.... pdf (archived Sept. 2, 2021). 3 Alexes Harris & Frank Edwards, Fines and Monetary Sanctions, IV. Conclusion These results suggest that within Washington s courts of in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology (2017); Mathilde Laisne et al., Vera Institute of Justice, Past Due: Examining the Costs...

..., httpswww.civilrightscorps.org/work/ verts to approximately $26,000 $27,650 in 2021 dollars. E. Baugher & L. Lamison-White, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P60-194, Poverty in the criminalization-of-poverty; A. Harris et al. (2016), Monetary United States: 1995 (1996). Sanctions in the Criminal...

... Rather, monetary sanctions from courts are generally based on offense type.22 LFOs pose disproportionate disadvantages to low-income individuals, who are more likely to be justice-involved, less likely to be able to pay, and thus more often subject to sanctions for nonpayment.23 These sanctions can...

... remaining collateral sanctions. Similarly, Minnesota s uni ed court system already plays an important part in curbing the reliance of local courts on excessive monetary sanctions.68 This structure can further reduce or eliminate potentially criminogenic nes and fees, while helping to ensure implementation...

... for violations, but also via monetary sanctions and procedural asymmetries. Finally, three federal public defenders offer their view of federal community supervision in A Tale of Two Districts: Supervised Release in the District of Arizona and the Northern District of California Through an insightful dialogue...

.... 2016. Crook County: Racism and injustice in America s Largest Criminal Court. Stanford University Press. 272. 216 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 36, NO. 4 APRIL 2024 Harris, Alexes, and Tyler Smith. 2022. Monetary sanctions as chronic and acute health stressors: The emotional strain of people...