Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, And The Afterlife Of Mass In

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Nombre: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Back Bay Books

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Recommended by Jamila Michener on The Ezra Klein Podcast

The imprint of incarceration on Millers life allows him to see and understand things other ethnographers often miss or overlook when they study the caging of citizens. He writes not only as a brilliant scholar, but also as a credible witness.Efren Paredes, Jr.

I have read dozens of books about mass incarceration, but I had never read one quite like Reuben Jonathan Millers Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. Scholars have long attempted to prove the rigor of their work by demonstrating their objectivity Miller demonstrates that his proximity to the issue of incarceration better equips him to write about it. Its a simple yet profound insight that gives the book a valuable richness. Clint Smith, The Atlantic

In Halfway Home, Miller wants us to understand incarcerations afterlife. The book is the culmination of Millers research in Chicago and Detroit... its also deeply informed by his own personal experiences with the carceral system...Hearts and minds, in this sense, have little to do with peoples feelings. Miller, with this powerful book, implores us to try.Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

Miller writes about criminal justice with the expertise of a legal scholar, but his life experiences and training as a social worker endow his analysis with a vividness and empathy that elude some other critiques of mass incarceration. And he tells stories with a plaintive lyricism that reminded me that Black folks in Chicago were primary creators of the American musical tradition known as the blues.Paul Butler, Washington Post

Impressive...Miller writes in prose that is at once powerful and engaging...This seminal work tracks the path of how we got here.NPR.org

Through vivid stories and evidence of this afterlife...Miller describes a new kind of prison...in heartbreaking prose.National Book Review

"For incarcerated persons in the United States, release does not equal freedom. Millers first book is an important, harrowing ethnographic study that reads like a keenly observed memoir, which, in part, it is. His own father and brothers having been imprisoned, Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, is candidly close to his research on mass incarceration and its after effects. This is essential reading for all who care about justice in contemporary America.
Library Journal, starred review

"Striking a unique balance between memoir and sociological treatise, this bracing account makes clear just how high the deck is stacked against the formerly incarcerated."Publishers Weekly, starred review

Reminiscent of Bryan Stevensons Just Mercy, Millers well-argued book delivers a scarifying account of law gone awry.Kirkus, starred review

Halfway Home is a vital and compelling account of the entangled legacies of racism, crime, and punishment in America. Miller shows how the nations experiment with mass incarceration harms those far removed from the prison's bars. Family members with incarcerated brothers and husbands confront confusing regulations that place restrictions on their loved ones and face impossible choices between caring for family members locked-up or those at home. This persuasive and essential work weaves together moral philosophy, in-depth interviews, legal theory, and personal history, reckoning with the meaning of justice and redemption in an unjust society. ?Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted

As this beautifully written, stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nations carceral system makes clear, we have not remotely yet grasped what drives it, nor how devastating is its reach. As Miller shows so powerfully, the damage done by this system has been so insidious, and so comprehensive, that certain Americans are always, in effect, doing time and, thus, to undo this crisis, and for most incarcerated Americans to truly ever be able to come home, will

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-Idioma: Inglés
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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780316451482
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0316451487
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Back Bay Books
Titulo del libro: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Miller, Reuben Jonathan
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 352
ISBN-13: 9780316451482
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780316451482