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Halfway home race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration

A Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record, demonstrating how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement.

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Main Author: Miller, Reuben Jonathan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ex-convicts > United States > Social conditions.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Parole > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
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Summary:A Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record, demonstrating how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement.
Physical Description:vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.
ISBN:9780316451512
0316451517
Author Notes:Reuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race, democracy, and the social life of the city. He has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago, he lives with his wife and children on the city's Southside.


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