Description:

The CHETchat Spotlight Series highlights the equity work of our invited speakers and fosters a dialogue about ways that attendees can engage in work that promotes health equity.

Pattillo will discuss her current research on monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system. While much research focuses on mass incarceration and its negative impacts on individuals, families, communities, and society more broadly, millions more people are affected by the fines, fees, restitution, surcharges, interest, and other costs imposed on people who are convicted of crimes ranging from traffic violations to violent felonies. Pattillo and her research team conducted over 240 hours of courtroom ethnography and did 155 interviews with court actors and people paying their court debt in Illinois. In this talk, she will report on how monetary sanctions are (mis)aligned with various aims of justice, and how they impact those who are sentenced to pay them.

Speaker: Mary Pattillo, Ph.D
Date:  Wednesday, October 14th
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Online Via Zoom (registration is required)