Selected Publications

Eine Chance für weniger Haft? Die Berücksichtigung des Existenzminimums bei der Festsetzung von Tagessätzen (A chance for less imprisonment? Taking the minimum subsistence level into account when setting fines), Report Chapter, Grundrechte-Report 2024 (Germany Fundamental Rights Report 2024) (forthcoming)

Für wen Bubatz legal? Warum der Gesetzentwurf zur Cannabis-Legalisieuring Zweiklassensystem vorsieht (Who is cannabis legal for? Why Germany’s legalization plan will create two-tiered cannabis justice), with Paula Benedict, analyse & kritik (December 2023)

In Haft wegen Armut (In prison for poverty), RAV InfoBrief (December 2023)

“Clankriminalität”, “Sozialbetrug” und die Massenkriminalisierung von Sozialleistungsberechtigten (“Gang crime”, “social benefits fraud” and the mass criminalization of people entitled to public benefits), Book chapter with Anthony Obst in General Verdacht: Wie mit dem Mythos Clankriminalität Politik gemacht wird (October 2023)

Reflections on Fees and Fines as Stategraft, with Rebekah Diller and Alicia Bannon, New York University Law Review Online (April 2023)

Kritische Analyse des Berichts der Justizminister zur Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe (Critical Analysis of German Justice Ministers’ Report on Germany’s Debtors’ Prisons), Report, Justice Collective (November 2022)

Wenn Armut strafbar wird, herrscht Klassenjustiz (When Poverty is Punished, Class Justice Prevails), Jacobin (April 2022)

Disparities and Discrimination in the European Union’s Criminal Legal Systems, Briefing, Fair Trials (January 2021)

Documenting police violence is a form of resistance, Al Jazeera (December 2020)

Why no EU progress on Black Lives Matter, EU Observer (September 2020)

The need to end structural racism in criminal legal systems in Europe, Briefing, Fair Trials (September 2020)

Announcing the Debt Justice Collective, Progressive International (July 2020)

The Limits of Fairer Fines: Lessons From Germany, Report, Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Policy Program (June 2020). 

Paying on Probation: How Financial Sanctions Intersect with Probation to Target, Trap, and Punish People Who Cannot Pay, Report with Sharon Brett and Neda Khoshkhoo, Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Policy Program (June 2020)

Introduction to Special Issue: Reflections from this Issue for Advancing Structural Change in Monetary Sanctions Policy, with Brook Hopkins, UCLA Journal of Criminal Law (Volume 4, Issue 1, 2020)

Court Culture and Criminal Law Reform, with Sharon Brett and Colin Doyle, Duke Law Journal (April 2020)

Criminal-Legal System Actors’ Practices and Views on Day Fines, with Nicole Bögelein, Kriminologie: Das Online Journal (December 2019)

Proportionate Financial Sanctions: Policy Prescriptions for Judicial Reform, Report with Sharon Brett, Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Policy Program (September 2019)

Flush with Revenue, MTA Must Stop Punishing Farebeaters, Crain’s New York Business (April 2019)

Criminalization of Poverty as a Driver of Poverty in the United States, Testimony to U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, with Human Rights Watch (October 2017)

When All Else Fails, Fining the Family: First Person Accounts of Criminal Justice Debt, with Mary Katzenstein (2015). 

Institutionalizing Debt: Child Support and the Fines and Fees Regime, with Mary Katzenstein, Criminology and Public Policy (August 2011)

Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry, Report with Alicia Bannon and Rebekah Diller, Brennan Center for Justice (2009)