Pocketbook policing
How race shapes municipal reliance on punitive fines and fees in the Chicago suburbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josh Pacewicz (0000-0002-1438-1786, Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, corresponding author), John N Robinson (0000-0003-1997-5433, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 975-1003 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ser/mwaa029 |
| OpenAlex | W3091371261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 61 |
This article investigates a trend in the Chicago region that defies conventional accounts of municipal politics and revenue-motivated policing: since the Great Recession, higher-income black suburbs have sharply increased collection of legal fines and fees. To explain this, we draw on a study of municipal officials to develop a racialization of municipal opportunity perspective, which highlights how racial segregation in the suburbs intersects with policies that encourage competition over tax revenue to produce fiscal inequalities that fall along racial lines. Officials across the region shared views about 'good' revenues like sales taxes paid mostly by nonresidents, but those in black suburbs were unable to access them and instead turned to 'bad' revenues like legal fines to manage fiscal crises-even where residents were fairly affluent and despite the absence of discriminatory intent at the local level. These findings invite inquiry into the racially uneven consequences of seemingly colorblind municipal fiscal practices in the USA and the distributional consequences of municipal governance in other national contexts
Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Political science · Politics · Property tax · Public economics · Punitive damages · Racialization · Recession · Revenue · Tax revenue · Urban politics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Finance · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Justice by Geography
What Is Wrong with Monetary Sanctions? Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research
Resisting Amnesia
Police Killings and Municipal Reliance on Fine-and-Fee Revenue
Incomparable Punishments
Racial change and income tax policy in the US states
Fines and Fees in Flux
The Road to Debtors’ Probation
State-by-State Review
For a Du Boisian economic sociology
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Classifying Black Suburbs
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Economic marginalization of ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe
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Unpredictable and monetized contact with the police
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Criminal justice as racialized organizations
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States
Beyond the Ballot Box
Predatory fines and fees
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
Ticketing and Turnout
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility
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When turnips bleed
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The Irrelevance of Innocence
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A Sociology of Real Estate
Recognition and Disregard
Embedding Racism
Crime Pays the Victim
The Limits of Preclearance
American apartheid
Black wealth, white wealth
Partisans and Partners
Abandoned in the Heartland
The Permanent Tax Revolt
Great American City
Down, Out, and Under Arrest
Pulled Over
Spaces of Neoliberalism
No Way Out
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Urban Fortunes
Race and place
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The New Masters of Capital
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Punishing the Poor
Punished
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
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The Suburban Ghetto
The City as a Fiscal Derivative
Deadly Symbiosis
Discourse and dystopia, American style
The Symbolic Dilemmas of Suburban Poverty
Not One but Many
Intrametropolitan Spatial Differentiation and Decline of Inner-Ring Suburbs
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Minority Threat and Police Strength From 1980 to 2000
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Social Theory and Social Structure
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Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing
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| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |