A Debt of Care: Commercial Bail and the Gendered Logic of Criminal Justice Predation
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Joshua Page, Victoria Piehowski, Joe Soss, A Debt of Care: Commercial Bail and the Gendered Logic of Criminal Justice Predation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 150-172
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People who owe LFO and child support debt borrow from social networks.
“borrow from social networks (Cook, 2014; Page et al., 2019; Richards & Jones, 1997)”
From Debt, Incarceration, and Re-entry: a Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as Page et al., 2019
In the passage beginning “Against this backdrop of limited resources” (page not provided), the paper says family members, partners, and close friends cosign defendants’ bail bonds and pay bail premiums. This supports the broader point that people draw on social networks for criminal-justice payments, but it does not show people borrowing from those networks to pay LFO or child support debt. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredDebt from LFOs, including bail, results in individuals and their families - particularly female family members - borrowing from costly, predatory lenders.
“Debt from LFOs, including bail, results in individuals and their families – particularly female family members - borrowing from costly, predatory lenders (Cook, 2014; Page et al., 2019)”
From Debt, Incarceration, and Re-entry: a Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as Page et al., 2019
In “Bail as a Site of Interdependence and Extraction” (page unavailable), the paper says defendants unable to afford bail turn to bail companies, which charge premiums through contracts often signed by family members. “Caring Obligations and Emotional Labor” (page unavailable) identifies women as the most frequent cosigners and describes costly, predatory bail terms. The paper does not establish that debt from LFOs generally leads families to borrow from separate predatory lenders. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredPeople who owe LFO and child support debt also have unpaid bills.
“People who owe LFO and child support debt also have unpaid bills”
From Debt, Incarceration, and Re-entry: a Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as Page et al., 2019
The passages on legal financial obligations and low-income defendants discuss fines, fees, and limited resources, but do not say that people owing LFO and child-support debt also have unpaid bills. Searches for “child support” and “unpaid bills” found no passage establishing that combination. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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- Authors
- Page, J., Piehowski, V., & Soss, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Venue
- RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
- Publisher
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Published
- 2019-02
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 150-172
- ISSN
- 2377-8253 (ISSN-L)
- 2377-8261
- OpenAlex
- W2919004607
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 12.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Keywords
- gender, pretrial detention, bail reform, women in the criminal justice system, gender inequality
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