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Reuben Jonathan Miller: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
February 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
Living Democracy Talk: ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ง๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ: ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฏ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ by Reuben Jonathan Miller
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ; ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ก๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ
While more people are incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation in the history of the western world, the prison is but one (comparatively) small part of a vast carceral landscape. The 600,000 people released each year join nearly 5 million people already on probation or parole, 12 million who are processed through a county jail, 19 million U.S. adults estimated to have a felony conviction, and the staggering 79 million Americans with a criminal record. But the size of the U.S. carceral state is second in consequence to its reach. Incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions upon release that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets, in the culture and civic life of the city, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to, and shoulder responsibilities other people are not expected to shoulder. They live in a โsupervised society,โ a hidden social world weโve produced through our laws, policies and everyday practices, and in fact, occupy an alternate form of political membershipโwhat Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller calls โcarceral citizenship.โ
Join Professor Miller as he examines the afterlife of mass incarceration, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of American Democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American citiesโChicago, Detroit, and New Yorkโwe will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. ๐๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐&๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ.
Reuben Jonathan Miller is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA). His research examines life at the intersections of race, poverty, crime control, and social welfare policy. He is the author of ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ง๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ: ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฏ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (February 2021), based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, their families, partners, and friends.
๐๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐โ๐ด Living Democracy ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด.
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ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.