ICCJ Annual Lecture 2023: "Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration"

Description

Each year, nearly 600,000 Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Incarcerated people in the U.S. are met by nearly 45,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions upon release, a supervised society that Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.” In his lecture, Professor Miller will examine the afterlife of mass incarceration, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of cities 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 cities—Chicago, Detroit, and New York—he will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Audience Q&A will follow.

Period	29 Mar 2023
Event type	Seminar
Degree of Recognition	International