Episode 86: Elizabeth Luh on financial penalties

Elizabeth Luh talks about the effects of financial penalties in the criminal justice system.

“The Impact of Financial Sanctions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Driver Responsibility Fee Programs in Michigan and Texas” by Keith Finlay, Matthew Gross, Elizabeth Luh, and Michael Mueller-Smith.

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt andSocial Inequality in the Contemporary United States” by Alexes Harris, Heather Evans, and Katherine Beckett.

• “Fines and Financial Wellbeing” by Steven Mello. [Working paper.]

• ”Does Punishment Compel Payment? Driver’s License Suspensions and Fine Delinquency” by Ryan E. Kessler. [Working paper.]

• “Disparate Fine Collection: Evidence using Chicago Parking Tickets” by Elizabeth Luh. [Working paper.]

• “Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving” by Benjamin Hansen.

• “Learning from Law Enforcement” by Libor Dusek and Christian Traxler.

• “Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment” by Devah Pager, Rebecca Goldstein, Helen Ho, and Bruce Western.

• “Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data” by Keith Finlay, Michael Mueller-Smith, and Brittany Street.

• “Criminal Court Fees, Earnings, and EExpenditures: A Multi-state RD Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data” by Carl Lieberman, Elizabeth Luh, and Michael Mueller-Smith. [Working paper available from the authors upon request.]

• “The (Non)Economics of Criminal Fines and Fees” by Tyler Giles.

• “A Proposal to End Regressive Taxation through Law Enforcement” by Michael Makowsky.

• “Revenue-Motivated Law Enforcement: Evidence, Consequences, and Policy Solutions” by Michael Makowsky.