Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fines (Penalties)
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Fines in Sentencing in New York State
Author: Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Crime and Punishment in New York
Author: New York (State). Executive Advisory Committee on SentencingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Sentencing & Corrections
Author: Fines in Sentencing
Author: Sally T. HillsmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fines (Penalties)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Day Fines in American Courts
Author: Douglas McDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Pound of Flesh
Author: Alexes HarrisPublisher: 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.
Fines in Sentencing
Author: Sally T. HillsmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Fixing Broken Windows
Author: George L. KellingPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684837382
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Cites successful examples of community-based policing.
Sentencing Law and Policy
Author: Nora V. DemleitnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Four leading sentencing scholars have produced the first and only text with enough up-to-date material to support a full course or seminar on sentencing. Other texts offer only partial coverage or out-of-date examples. The chapters in Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines present examples from three distinct types of sentencing guideline-determinate, and capital. The materials draw on the full spectrum of legal institutions, from the U.S. Supreme Court To The state court level, with close consideration of the role of legislatures and sentencing commissions. The only current, full-course text on sentencing, this new title offers: an 'intuitive', conceptually-based organization that looks at the essential substantative components and procedural steps following the sequence of decisions that typically occurs in every criminal sentencing examples covering three distinct areas of sentencing, with chapter materials based on guideline-determinate, indeterminate, and capital sentencing materials from a range of institutions, including decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, state high courts, federal appellate courts, and some foreign jurisdictions - along with statutes and guideline provisions, and reports from various sentencing commissions and agencies in-text notes on sentencing policies that explain common practices in U.S. jurisdictions, then ask students to compare different institutional practices and consider the relationship between sentencing rules, politics, And The broader aims of criminal justice