Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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Praised as a “powerful book” (New York Times) and “seminal work” (National Public Radio), Miller describes incarceration’s “afterlife” — how a single arrest can follow a person “like a ghost.” Halfway Home is based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, their families, partners, and friends, weaving their stories into a “bracing account [that] makes clear just how high the deck is stacked against the formerly incarcerated." (Publishers Weekly)
Informed by Miller’s experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, Halfway Home is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also American democracy.
Please note: The event will be a Hybrid event, but only available as 'in person' to Oxford Criminology staff and students with limited capacity.
Registrations will close at 12 midday on Wednesday 2nd March. The link will be sent to you later that afternoon.
Reuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago where he is an Associate Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. He studies and writes about race, democracy, and the social life of the city.