Purgatory Citizenship

Reentry, Race, and Abolition
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38599-3
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 359 g

Reihe: University of California Press

Reentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex, and precarious. Making use of life-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serve as an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems, Purgatory Citizenship advocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smiley, Calvin John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Underdevelopment

2. Purgatory

3. Halfway

4. Body

5. Space 1
6. Abolition

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Calvin John Smiley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College–City University of New York.