Private Probation Costs, Compliance, and the Proportionality of Punishment: Evidence from Georgia and Missouri

Huebner, Beth M.; Shannon, Sarah

doi:10.7758/rsf.2022.8.1.08

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“…Many drivers find these monetary sanctions somehow a waste of money, since this money could have been better used or invested. But there is no exception to the rule and everyone who violates must pay the corresponding penalty (Huebner & Shannon, 2022). These were the shared experiences of the participants:…”

Section: Wasted Money As a Results Of A Violationmentioning

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No Shoes, No Travel Policy in Ozamiz City: A Case Study

Paras¹,

Verdad²,

Plangca³

et al. 2022

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The No shoes no travel policy declares that it will secure and protect its citizens, particularly motorcycle operators or drivers and their passengers, from the devastating and extremely injurious effects of fatal or life-threatening accidents and crashes. This study determined the cause and insight of the motorist towards the experience of ordinance in No Shoes, No Travel Policy in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental. It composed five motorists, who were voluntarily participated the study, and was selected through the following inclusion criteria:11) driver not less than five years; 2) residence in Ozamiz City, and; 3) have experience in committing traffic violation. There were four (4) themes identified in the study, namely environment condition and emergency pushes a driver to commit a violation, wasted money as a result of a violation, calmness and acceptance in the violation and realization and understanding the purpose of the ordinance. The findings of the study shows that motorists face a variety of issues, which causes the drivers to break the ordinance as a result of the poor weather condition, makes them to disregard the ordinance regulating their safety. It was recommended to the drivers that always have a spare pair of shoes so that if one gets wet it may be replaced with a dry one, and be extra careful in wet weather. The researchers further recommend drivers to obey the ordinance in order to avoid paying a penalty that beyond their financial means, as well as to avoid large medical expenses in the hospital if they get injured or wounded as a result of disregarding the ordinance.

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Section: Wasted Money As a Results Of A Violationmentioning

confidence: 99%

No Shoes, No Travel Policy in Ozamiz City: A Case Study

Paras¹,

Verdad²,

Plangca³

et al. 2022

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“…Furthermore, individuals who cannot comply with sanctions are often subject to repeat court appearances and payment plans, prolonging their exposure to the criminal legal system and further extracting financial and opportunity costs (Harris, 2016; Huebner & Shannon, 2022). Legal debt leads to what some have deemed a two‐tier system of justice (Pattillo & Kirk, 2021).…”

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Unpredictable and monetized contact with the police: Race, avoidance behaviors, and modified activity spaces

Giuffre

Huebner

2023

Criminology

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Exponential growth in order maintenance policing and associated misdemeanor sanctions have led to disproportionate consequences for people of color. Using data from qualitative interviews with individuals in the metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, region, the current study documents the racialized and monetized nature of police contact. This work extends extant scholarship by considering how minor contact with the police shapes individual avoidance behaviors and activity spaces, places where people work and live. We consider how the combination of monetary sanctions, warrants, incarceration, and overpolicing in the region affects avoidance behaviors, particularly for people of color. Our findings suggest that the frequently unpredictable nature of police contacts and the parochial and often profit-focused structure of policing organizations in the region leads individuals to modify the ways in which they move through the region and, for some, to isolate. Narratives reflect the need for constant calibration of behaviors and decisions, as well as the legacy that police contact and monetary sanctions can have on everyday routines.

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“…In the past four decades, the number of individuals on probation has quadrupled, which Phelps (2017) attributes to policies and practices of criminalization, including expanded penalties for crimes, augmented policing of disorder, and more punitive prosecutorial and judicial decision-making. In 2020, there were 3.5 million individuals-1 in 72 adults-on probation (Huebner and Shannon 2022). Ohio has the 10th highest rate of incarceration in the United States (Carson 2021) but the 3rd highest rate of adults on probation (Kluckow and Zeng 2022).…”

Section: Debt Surveillance and Carceral Riskmentioning

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Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt

Black

Caporale

2023

Sociological Forum

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Monetary sanctions are an integral and expanding part of the criminal legal system, even though most of the population under community supervision are indigent. Reentering citizens often leave imprisonment with considerable debt that accumulates from court costs and fees, supervision fees, child support arrears, motor vehicle, and other forms of debt. In this article, we examine how an indigent population of reentering citizens make sense of the totality of their debt, prioritize paying their debts, and develop strategies to increase their personal autonomy within the constraints of family dependence, debt, and state supervision. We track 30 men released from an Alternative Incarceration Facility in Cleveland, Ohio and use case studies to illustrate the strategies men adopted within a set of personal contingencies, including the nature of their debt, the extent of family support, their personal skills and resources, access to jobs, probation requirements, relationships with probation officers, and the exercise of judicial discretion. Our study demonstrates how risk‐taking is baked into the criminal legal system and how this keeps reentering citizens in a perpetual state of carceral vulnerability.

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Private Probation Costs, Compliance, and the Proportionality of Punishment: Evidence from Georgia and Missouri

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

No Shoes, No Travel Policy in Ozamiz City: A Case Study

No Shoes, No Travel Policy in Ozamiz City: A Case Study

Unpredictable and monetized contact with the police: Race, avoidance behaviors, and modified activity spaces

Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt

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