Purgatory Citizenship

Reentry, Race, and Abolition

Calvin John Smiley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38599-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Underdevelopment
2. Purgatory
3. Halfway
4. Body
5. Space 1
6. Abolition

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	12 b-w photos
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	136 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38599-3 / 0520385993
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38599-3 / 9780520385993
Zustand	Neuware