Layaway Freedom: Coercive Financialization in the Criminal Legal System
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- 1 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in American Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 126 (4) , 889-930
Abstract
Economic sociologists have documented the rise of financialization, including credit and debt. In the case of monetary sanctions in the criminal legal system, courts frequently extend payment plans...Keywords
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