Philadelphia’s criminal justice fines and fees fall hardest on poorest neighborhoods

By Jordan Hyatt, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University
C. Clare Strange, Assistant Professor of School Psychology, Special Education, and Sociology
Nathan Link, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Brian Lawton, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New research maps where legal financial obligations are concentrated – and finds they overlap with poverty, violence and racial inequality.

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