Beth A. Colgan

Publications

• Paying Financial Sanctions via Incarceration: A Case Study of “Sitting Out”
  116 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 195 (2026) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2026
• Revenue, Race, and the Potential Unintended Consequences of Traffic Enforcement Reform
  101 N. C. L. REV. 889 (2023) · North Carolina Law Review · 2023
• The Burdens of the Excessive Fines Clause
  63 WM. & MARY L. REV. 407 (2021) · William & Mary Law Review · 2021
• Beyond Graduation: Economic Sanctions and Structural Reform
  69 DUKE L.J. 1529 (2020) · Duke Law Journal · 2020

• Wealth-Based Penal Disenfranchisement
  72 VAND. L. REV. 55 (2019) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2019
• Lessons from Ferguson on Individual Defense Representation as a Tool of Systemic Reform
  58 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1171 (2017) · William & Mary Law Review · 2017
• Reviving the Excessive Fines Clause
  102 CAL. L. REV. 277 (2014) · California Law Review · 2014

• Teaching a Prisoner to Fish: Getting Tough on Crime by Preparing Prisoners to Reenter Society
  5 SEATTLE J. FOR SOC. JUST. (2006) · Seattle Journal for Social Justice · 2006
• Let the Cameras Roll: Mandatory Videotaping of Interrogations Is the Solution to Illinois' Problem of False Confessions
  32 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 337 (2001) · Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2001