"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 not merely a series of inconveniences, but rather an extension of state punishment that impairs 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."
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John M. Halushka Imprint: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 363g ISBN:9780520388697 ISBN 10: 0520388690 Pages: 248 Publication Date:29 November 2023 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Institutional Circuit of Prisoner Reentry 2 • Jumping through Hoops 3 • They Set You Up to Fail 4 • In Search of Respectability 5 • Becoming Professionally Poor 6 • Backsliding Conclusion: Citizenship and Social Justice in the Age of Mass Prisoner Reentry Notes References Index
John M. Halushka is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University.