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- Title
Why Motive Matters: Designing Effective Policy Responses to Modern Debtors' Prisons.
- Authors
Marsh, Andrea; Gerrick, Emily
- Abstract
An essay is presented which explores the common components of criminal justice debt and constitutional limitations on incarceration for criminal justice debt. Topics discussed include strengths and weaknesses of revenue generation as the driving explanation for modern debtors' prisons, need to design effective policies to end modern debtors' prisons and policy implications of understanding of why debtors' prisons continue to exist across the country.
- Subjects
CRIMINAL justice system; IMPRISONMENT; DEBT; GOVERNMENT revenue; PRISONS
- Publication
Yale Law & Policy Review, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0740-8048
- Publication type
Essay