Who benefits from criminal legal reform? A natural experiment to assess racial disparities in a policy targeting monetary sanctions

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Criminology Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI:10.1007/s11292-023-09597-3

Amanda Isabel Mauri, Nancy Nicosia, Beau Kilmer

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Abstract

Objective

To examine disparities in court fines between American Indian and White convicted persons before and after a South Dakota reform, which trained court personnel to only assess fines that could be reasonably paid by defendants.

Methods

A natural experiment design using criminal records for the universe of convictions for misdemeanor arrests between July 2011–June 2015 (N = 34,700) was employed to estimate the association between the reform and the likelihood of a fine using logistic regression.

Results

The reform was associated with reductions in fine assessments in urban (OR, 0.63; CI, 0.39–1.04); rural, no Indian Country (OR, 0.24; CI, 0.18–0.33); and rural, part-Indian Country counties (OR, 0.24; CI, 0.18–0.32). Both American Indian and White persons experienced these reductions, but the reductions were smaller for American Indians in urban counties.

Conclusions

A defendant’s race and features of local court structures may shape judicial behavior in response to monetary sanctioning reforms.

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谁从刑事法律改革中受益？通过自然实验评估货币制裁政策中的种族差异

目的研究南达科他州改革前后美国印第安人和白人被定罪者在法庭罚款方面的差异。方法采用自然实验设计，使用 2011 年 7 月至 2015 年 6 月期间因轻罪逮捕而被定罪的犯罪记录（N = 34700），利用逻辑回归估计改革与罚款可能性之间的关联。结果在城市（OR，0.63；CI，0.39-1.04）、无印第安人地区的农村（OR，0.24；CI，0.18-0.33）和部分印第安人地区的农村县（OR，0.24；CI，0.18-0.32），改革与罚款评估的减少有关。结论被告的种族和当地法院结构的特点可能会影响司法行为对金钱制裁改革的反应。

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Journal of Experimental Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Criminology focuses on high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the advancement of criminological theory and/or the development of evidence based crime and justice policy. The journal is also committed to the advancement of the science of systematic reviews and experimental methods in criminology and criminal justice. The journal seeks empirical papers on experimental and quasi-experimental studies, systematic reviews on substantive criminological and criminal justice issues, and methodological papers on experimentation and systematic review. The journal encourages submissions from scholars in the broad array of scientific disciplines that are concerned with criminology as well as crime and justice problems.