Leonardo LaBarre

Undergraduate Board Member
University of Minnesota

The Politics of Punishment and Payments

by Leonardo LaBarre on Feb. 23, 2023 at Discoveries
Ilya Slavinski and Becky Pettit, “Proliferation of Punishment: The Centrality of Legal Fines and Fees in the Landscape of Contemporary Penology ,” Social Problems, 2022 Court fines and fees are hardly new, however, their use has increased in recent years. New research from Ilya Slavinski and Becky Pettit shows how law enforcement agencies are using […]

Best of 2022: School Expulsion Leads to Earlier Police Contact

by Leonardo LaBarre on Jan. 19, 2023 at Discoveries
Dylan Jackson, Alexander Testa, Jelena Todić, and Jonathan Leos-Martinez, “Exclusionary School Discipline during Childhood and Adolescent Police Encounters,” Deviant Behavior , 2022 Originally published October 25, 2022 Many argue that well behaved students do not deserve to have their learning disrupted by unruly behavior. But what happens to the students who are expelled or suspended  […]

The Politics of Punishment and Payments

by Leonardo LaBarre on Dec. 6, 2022 at Discoveries
Ilya Slavinski and Becky Pettit, “Proliferation of Punishment: The Centrality of Legal Fines and Fees in the Landscape of Contemporary Penology,” Social Problems, 2021 Court fines and fees  are hardly new, however, their use has increased in recent years. New research from Ilya Slavinski and Becky Pettit suggests that law enforcement agencies have resurrected these […]

Leo is a 3rd year Undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota working toward a Psychology degree with minors in Sociology and Family Violence Prevention.