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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Fines as criminal sanctions
Author: Fines in Sentencing
Author: Sally T. HillsmanPublisher:
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Pound of Flesh
Author: Alexes HarrisPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448553
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Over seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their criminal records often following them for life and affecting access to higher education, jobs, and housing. Court-ordered monetary sanctions that compel criminal defendants to pay fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution further inhibit their ability to reenter society. In A Pound of Flesh, sociologist Alexes Harris analyzes the rise of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system and shows how they permanently penalize and marginalize the poor. She exposes the damaging effects of a little-understood component of criminal sentencing and shows how it further perpetuates racial and economic inequality. Harris draws from extensive sentencing data, legal documents, observations of court hearings, and interviews with defendants, judges, prosecutors, and other court officials. She documents how low-income defendants are affected by monetary sanctions, which include fees for public defenders and a variety of processing charges. Until these debts are paid in full, individuals remain under judicial supervision, subject to court summons, warrants, and jail stays. As a result of interest and surcharges that accumulate on unpaid financial penalties, these monetary sanctions often become insurmountable legal debts which many offenders carry for the remainder of their lives. Harris finds that such fiscal sentences, which are imposed disproportionately on low-income minorities, help create a permanent economic underclass and deepen social stratification. A Pound of Flesh delves into the court practices of five counties in Washington State to illustrate the ways in which subjective sentencing shapes the practice of monetary sanctions. Judges and court clerks hold a considerable degree of discretion in the sentencing and monitoring of monetary sanctions and rely on individual values—such as personal responsibility, meritocracy, and paternalism—to determine how much and when offenders should pay. Harris shows that monetary sanctions are imposed at different rates across jurisdictions, with little or no state government oversight. Local officials’ reliance on their own values and beliefs can also push offenders further into debt—for example, when judges charge defendants who lack the means to pay their fines with contempt of court and penalize them with additional fines or jail time. A Pound of Flesh provides a timely examination of how monetary sanctions permanently bind poor offenders to the judicial system. Harris concludes that in letting monetary sanctions go unchecked, we have created a two-tiered legal system that imposes additional burdens on already-marginalized groups.
Day Fines in Europe
Author: Elena Kantorowicz-ReznichenkoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108846645
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Day fines, as a pecuniary sanction, have a great potential to reduce inequality in the criminal sentencing system, as they impose the same relative punishment on all offenders irrespective of their income. Furthermore, with correct implementation, they can constitute an alternative sanction to the more repressive and not always efficient short-term prison sentences. Finally, by independently expressing in the sentence the severity and the income of the offender, day fines can increase uniformity and transparency of sentencing. Having this in mind, almost half of the European Union countries have adopted day fines in their criminal justice system. For the first time, this book makes their findings accessible to a wider international audience. Aimed at scholars, policy makers and criminal law practitioners, it provides an opportunity to learn about the theoretical advantages, the practical challenges, the successes and failures, and ways to improve.
The Enforcement of Fines as Criminal Sanctions
Author: Silvia S. G. CasalePublisher:
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Category : Fines (Penalties)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Fines in Sentencing
Author: Sally T. HillsmanPublisher:
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Deterrent Effects of Criminal Sanctions
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Criminal ProcedurePublisher:
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Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Invisible Punishment
Author: Meda Chesney-LindPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595587365
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and ’90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.
How to Use Structured Fines (day Fines) as an Intermediate Sanction
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Category : Alternatives to imprisonment
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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