Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Year
- 2021
- ISBN-13
- 9780316494328
- Genre
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Topics
- Mass incarcerationRacial injusticeCriminal justice reform
Awards
- PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionShortlisted(2022)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(2021)
If you liked Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, you could also like these
Crime and Punishment in America
Elliott Currie
0 wins · 4 score
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
1 win · 15 score
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson
1 win · 8 score
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer
1 win · 8 score
Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
0 wins · 2 score
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Steve Bogira
0 wins · 3 score
Charged: The Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon
0 wins · 2 score
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon
1 win · 8 score
Crime and Punishment in American History
Lawrence M. Friedman
0 wins · 4 score
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Mychal Denzel Smith
1 win · 8 score
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany K. Barnett
0 wins · 3 score
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States
Ana Raquel Minian
1 win · 8 score
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
1 win · 13 score
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Isabel Wilkerson
0 wins · 4 score
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
1 win · 18 score
Similar Topics
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer
1 win · 8 score
Mass incarcerationCriminal justice reformCharged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon
1 win · 8 score
Criminal justice reformMass incarcerationA Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany K. Barnett
0 wins · 3 score
Criminal justice reformRacial injusticeBringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
0 wins · 2 score
Criminal justice reformRacial injusticeCharged: The Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon
0 wins · 2 score
Mass incarcerationCriminal justice reform
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
1 win · 29 score
Racial injusticeJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
1 win · 18 score
Criminal justice reformLocking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
1 win · 15 score
Mass incarceration
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
1 win · 12 score
Racial injustice
Solitary
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
0 wins · 8 score
Criminal justice reform
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Nate Blakeslee
1 win · 5 score
Racial injusticeCrime and Punishment in America
Elliott Currie
0 wins · 4 score
Mass incarceration