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This project explores how systems of legal monetary sanctions operate across the United States. It provides empirical evidence of the ways in which fiscal penalties affect those unable to make payments. The findings of this study will be used to inform better evidence-based policymaking decisions on legal monetary sanctions. Principal investigator: Alexes Harris, Department of Sociology, University of Washington. Co-investigators: Karin Martin, Department of Public Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Becky Pettit, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Beth Huebner, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri St. Louis, Mary Pattillo, Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University, Bryan Sykes, School of Social Ecology, University of California Irvine, Chris Uggen, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Sarah Shannon, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia.