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Margaret F. Brinig and Marsha Garrison, Getting Blood from Stones: Results and Policy Implications of an Empirical Investigation of Child Support Practice in St. Joseph County, Indiana Paternity Actions, 56 Fam. Ct. Rev. 521 (Oct. 2018).

Her Justice, Towards Justice for Parents in Child Support Cases (Mar. 2021).

Abby Shafroth, Criminal Justice Debt in the South: A Primer for the Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt, National Consumer Law Center (Dec. 2018).

Elizabeth Patterson, Turner in the Trenches: A Study of How Turner v. Rogers Affected Child Support Contempt Proceedings, 25 Geo. J. on Poverty L. Pol’y 75 (2017).

ACLU, A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt (2018).

Alabama Appleseed, Under Pressure (2008).

Alexandra Bastien, Ending the Debt Trap: Strategies to Stop the Abuse of Court-Imposed Fees and Fines, PolicyLink (Mar. 2017).

Job Opportunities Task Force, The Criminalization of Poverty: How to Break the Cycle Through Policy Reform in Maryland (Jan. 2018).

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Targeted Fines and Fees Against Communities of Color: Civil Rights & Constitutional Implications (Sept. 2017).

Mass. Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, Fine Time Massachusetts: Judges, Poor People, and Debtors’ Prison in the 21st Century (Nov. 7, 2016).

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