Paid Your Debt to Society? Court-related Financial Obligations and Community Supervision during the First Year after Release from Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13102479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan W Link (0000-0002-2763-2011, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 202-218 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Corrections (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2377-4657 • E-ISSN: 2377-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23774657.2021.1878072 |
| OpenAlex | W3128109752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 36 |
Academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike are increasingly interested in criminal legal debt stemming from financial sanctions and its consequences on individuals and families. Most prior work has focused on justice system exposure and the accumulation of fines, fees, and costs. This study assesses whether owing criminal court debt is a factor in keeping people tied to the justice system in the short-term yet critical window after release from prison. In addition, I examine whether being under supervision (i.e., probation or parole) increases the chance of owing court-related debt. Relying on longitudinal survey data from the Returning Home Study, results suggest the existence of a feedback loop whereby one’s status as being under correctional supervision at release from prison leads to increased debt, which in turn increases the chance of remaining under supervision during the first year out. The findings have implications for law and policy and raise important questions about the role of revenue generation in criminal justice
Business · Criminal justice · Criminology · Debt · Economic Justice · Political science · Prison · Revenue · Sanctions · Work (physics · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Finance
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Self-reported offending and drug use after prison release
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Paying the Price
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The Lasting Effects of Incarcerating Juveniles in US Adult Facilities
Regression Diagnostics
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Employment After Prison
Drug Use and Crime after Incarceration
Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models
When prisoners come home
The Relative Trustworthiness of Inferential Tests of the Indirect Effect in Statistical Mediation Analysis
Required Sample Size to Detect the Mediated Effect
Between Prison and Probation
On cash and conviction
Fines and Day Fines
Some New Results on Indirect Effects and Their Standard Errors in Covariance Structure Models
A half century of parole rules
Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism
The Use and Effects of Financial Penalties in Municipal Courts
The Paradox of Probation
Agency-level Perceptions of Monetary Sanctions
Drawing Blood from Stones
Longitudinal Associations among Child Support Debt, Employment, and Recidivism after Prison
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |