Crime Pays the Victim
Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964-1984
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| ID | 2229375 |
|---|---|
| Autores | J R Levine (0000-0002-3906-6010, University of Michigan), Kelly L Russell (0000-0002-9613-4665, Florida State University) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 1158-1205 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/723952 |
| OpenAlex | W4352978374 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 9 |
| Referências citadas | 85 |
What mechanisms allow governments to expand into new areas of social provision and provide new benefits? Integrating theories from sociology and political science and using the case of crime victim compensation, this article shows how the political and moral meaning of policy financing tools affects state boundary expansion. In the mid-1960s, liberal politicians proposed victim compensation as a new public benefit, but conservatives resisted it as too costly and beyond governmental responsibility. Yet a few years later, a Republican-backed federal compensation bill, the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), passed into law. What explains this puzzling turn of events? Unlike previous taxpayer-funded bills, VOCA was funded entirely from increased criminal fines. The bill’s proponents politicized the revenue source as a tax on criminals, rendering questions concerning governmental responsibility moot. Just as important, the state expanded its power to extract revenue from its denizens: victim compensation law was one of the first instances in which lawmakers created new fines to pay for a new public program
Business · Compensation (psychology) · Economics · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Revenue · State (computer science) · Taxpayer · American History and Culture · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Finance · Law
Who’s a “Good” Victim of Gender-Based Violence?
Against the Clock
The Burden of Truth is Just Very High
The good, the bad, and the ugly
Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Among Homicide Survivors in the United States
How Work Becomes Invisible
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations
Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent victimhood in victim compensation law
The roots of charity
Politics and jobs
Capitalizing on Crisis
The Submerged State
At the Boundaries of Homeownership
The Culture of Control
The Penalisation of Poverty and the rise of Neo-Liberalism
A pound of flesh
Capitalizing on Crisis
Politics in Time
The Failed Welfare Revolution
Unveiling the Necrocapitalist Dimensions of the Shadow Carceral State
Making Crime Pay
Getting Tough
Comparative-Historical Methods
Poverty Knowledge
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Governing Through Crime
The Prison and the Gallows
Power in Movement
Downtown Development and Urban Reform
Statutory Inequality
American Exceptionalism Revisited
The First Civil Right
On cash and conviction
The Line Must Be Drawn Somewhere”
Frontlash
Ideas and Social Policy
Public Compensation to Victims of Crime
Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change
Racialized Conflict and Policy Spillover Effects
Policy‐Elite Perceptions and Social Movement Success
Policy Entrepreneurs and the Origins of the Regulatory Welfare State
Bottom‐Up Federalism
When Effect Becomes Cause
Race, Representation, and Revenue
Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources
Taxing the Poor
When and How New Policy Creates New Politics
Decision Making in Political Systems
The Color of Welfare
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Tax increment financing, economic development professionals and the financialization of urban politics
Criminalizing Poverty
Deciding to Discipline
Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions
Public Emergency Room Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Imprisonment
Pocketbook policing
American Bonds
Taxes, taxpayers, and settler colonialism
Three Worlds of Relief
Mechanisms of the Racial Tax State
Defining the State from within
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange
User Funded? Using Budgets to Examine the Scope and Revenue Impact of Fines and Fees in the Criminal Justice System
Restitution without Restoration? Exploring the Gap between the Perception and Implementation of Restitution
Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation
Repurposing American Labor Law
Protest and Political Opportunities
Framing Processes and Social Movements
Politics and Institutionalism
The Fiscalization of Social Policy
Layaway Freedom
What Do Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Analytic Architectures in Historical Sociology
Making Markets on the Margins
Incarcerated Fatherhood
The Miracles of Bookkeeping
Saying Yes to Taxes
The Transformation of America's Penal Order
Drawing Blood from Stones
Resonance and Radicalism
Making Use of the Past
Path dependence in historical sociology
What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes
| Obras citantes distintas | 9 |
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| Citações por ano | 4,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 8 |