Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Report on the Study and Investigation of the Work, Activities, Personnel and Functions of Protective and Reorganization Committees
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Arkansas Documents
Author: Arkansas State Library. Documents Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Pound of Flesh
Author: Alexes Harris
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448553
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448553
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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.
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act
Author: John J. Watkins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682260399
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in 1967, builds upon its predecessors, incorporating later legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and Attorney General’s opinions to present a synthesis of the law of access to public records and meetings in Arkansas.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682260399
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in 1967, builds upon its predecessors, incorporating later legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and Attorney General’s opinions to present a synthesis of the law of access to public records and meetings in Arkansas.
Index of Forms
Author: United States. Defense Logistics Agency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Public Library Laws
Author: Washington (State)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Strategies to Increase Seat Belt Use: An Analysis of Levels of Fines and the Type of Law
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437943349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437943349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description