Fees

Scratching the Surface on How Much it Costs to Assess and Collect Court Imposed Criminal Fees and Fines

Research on the Unintended Consequences of Parental Sanctions

Collateral Consequences

On Cash and Conviction: Monetary Sanctions as Misguided Policy

The New Due Process: Fairness in a Fee-Driven State

Injustice in the Lowest Courts: How Municipal Courts Rob America’s Youth

Legislative Advocacy

Call for a Nationwide Moratorium on Juvenile Fees and Fines (2020)

(Color)Blind Reform: How Ability-to-Pay Determinations are Inadequate to Transform a Racialized System of Penal Debt

Racial Disparities

Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration Recommend States Stop Charging Youth Fees and Fines

The Steep Costs of Criminal Justice Fees and Fines

Debtors’ Blocks: How Monetary Sanctions Make Between-neighborhood Racial and Economic Inequalities Worse

Collateral Consequences