Journal article
Debtors' Blocks: How Monetary Sanctions Make Between-neighborhood Racial and Economic Inequalities Worse
Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Vol.8(1), pp.43-61
01/01/2022
DOI: 10.1177/23326492211057817
PMCID: PMC9122038
PMID: 35602462
Abstract
Although recent scholarship has enumerated many individual-level consequences of criminal legal citations and sentences involving fines and fees, we know surprisingly little about the structural consequences of monetary sanctions or legal financial obligations (LFOs). We use social disorganization and critical race theories to examine neighborhood-level associations between and among LFO sentence amounts, poverty, and racial and ethnic demographics. Using longitudinal data from the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, and the American Community Survey, we find LFOs are more burdensome in high-poverty communities and of color, and that per-capita rates of LFOs sentenced are associated with increased future poverty rates across all neighborhoods.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Debtors' Blocks: How Monetary Sanctions Make Between-neighborhood Racial and Economic Inequalities Worse
- Creators
- Kate K. O'Neill - University of WashingtonIan Kennedy - University of WashingtonAlexes Harris - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Vol.8(1), pp.43-61
- DOI
- 10.1177/23326492211057817
- PMID
- 35602462
- PMCID
- PMC9122038
- NLM abbreviation
- Sociol Race Ethn (Thousand Oaks)
- ISSN
- 2332-6492
- eISSN
- 2332-6506
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 19
- Grant note
- Arnold Ventures T32 HD101442-01; P2C HD042828 / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984696712502771
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