Getting the runaround : formerly incarcerated men and the bureaucratic barriers to reentry / John M. Halushka.
2023
HV9306.N6 H35 2023
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Title
Getting the runaround : formerly incarcerated men and the bureaucratic barriers to reentry / John M. Halushka.
ISBN
9780520388703 electronic book
0520388704 electronic book
9780520388680 hardcover
9780520388697 paperback
0520388704 electronic book
9780520388680 hardcover
9780520388697 paperback
Published
Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages)
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HV9306.N6 H35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.809747
Summary
"Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and forty-five in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men returning to New York City, John M. Halushka argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic hassles. This "runaround" is more than just a series of inconveniences, but rather an extension of state punishment that undermines successful reintegration by exacerbating material poverty and diminishing citizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in cycles of poverty, bureaucratic processing, and social control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift conversations about reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework and toward a vision of social justice and inclusion"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The institutional circuit of prisoner reentry
Jumping through hoops
They set you up to fail
In search of respectability
Becoming professionally poor
Backsliding
Conclusion : citizenship and social justice in the age of mass prisoner reentry.
Jumping through hoops
They set you up to fail
In search of respectability
Becoming professionally poor
Backsliding
Conclusion : citizenship and social justice in the age of mass prisoner reentry.