John Halushka
Biographic Data
| ID | 235128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Halushka |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Halushka |
| SIGNATURE | HALUSHKA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6217-4829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The ideological work of penal reform: How reformers justify penal-welfare hybridization
This article uses the Santa Clara County Reentry Resource Center (RRC) as a case study to explore the cultural content of penal reform. Specifically, we explore the discourses that officials use to publicly justify projects of penal-welfare hybridization, or the linking of state systems of punishment and welfare to manage criminalized populations. Our qualitative analysis draws on a dataset consisting of county planning documents, budgets, videos…
The Runaround: Punishment, Welfare, and Poverty Survival after Prison
Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 45 in-depth interviews with formerly-incarcerated men, this article explores how former prisoners navigate criminal justice and welfare bureaucracies in their daily lives. Formerly-incarcerated men must repeatedly engage with parole, public assistance agencies, transitional housing facilities, and community-based service providers to maintain freedom and access food, shelter, and rehabilitative ser…
James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Managing rehabilitation: Negotiating performance accountability at the frontlines of reentry service provision
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of two prisoner reentry agencies, this article explores how frontline service providers negotiate the contradictory demands of performance accountability. Performance accountability systems—collectively known as the New Public Management (NPM)—force service providers to make difficult trade-offs between these managerial goals and the substantive goals of rehabilitation. However, we know little about how fr…
Work wisdom: Teaching former prisoners how to negotiate workplace interactions and perform a rehabilitated self
Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork at a community-based prisoner reentry program, this article investigates how staff members attempt to cultivate former prisoners' cultural capital to mitigate stigma and facilitate interactions with employers. I call this curriculum work wisdom, which involves teaching clients how to (1) disclose discrediting information and communicate remorse; (2) tailor their style of dress, speech, and bodily …
Work wisdom: Teaching former prisoners how to negotiate workplace interactions and perform a rehabilitated self
Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork at a community-based prisoner reentry program, this article investigates how staff members attempt to cultivate former prisoners' cultural capital to mitigate stigma and facilitate interactions with employers. I call this curriculum work wisdom, which involves teaching clients how to (1) disclose discrediting information and communicate remorse; (2) tailor their style of dress, speech, and bodily …
The Runaround: Punishment, Welfare, and Poverty Survival after Prison
Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 45 in-depth interviews with formerly-incarcerated men, this article explores how former prisoners navigate criminal justice and welfare bureaucracies in their daily lives. Formerly-incarcerated men must repeatedly engage with parole, public assistance agencies, transitional housing facilities, and community-based service providers to maintain freedom and access food, shelter, and rehabilitative ser…
Managing rehabilitation: Negotiating performance accountability at the frontlines of reentry service provision
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of two prisoner reentry agencies, this article explores how frontline service providers negotiate the contradictory demands of performance accountability. Performance accountability systems—collectively known as the New Public Management (NPM)—force service providers to make difficult trade-offs between these managerial goals and the substantive goals of rehabilitation. However, we know little about how fr…
James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Managing rehabilitation: Negotiating performance accountability at the frontlines of reentry service provision
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of two prisoner reentry agencies, this article explores how frontline service providers negotiate the contradictory demands of performance accountability. Performance accountability systems—collectively known as the New Public Management (NPM)—force service providers to make difficult trade-offs between these managerial goals and the substantive goals of rehabilitation. However, we know little about how fr…
Work wisdom: Teaching former prisoners how to negotiate workplace interactions and perform a rehabilitated self
Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork at a community-based prisoner reentry program, this article investigates how staff members attempt to cultivate former prisoners' cultural capital to mitigate stigma and facilitate interactions with employers. I call this curriculum work wisdom, which involves teaching clients how to (1) disclose discrediting information and communicate remorse; (2) tailor their style of dress, speech, and bodily …
James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
The Runaround: Punishment, Welfare, and Poverty Survival after Prison
Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 45 in-depth interviews with formerly-incarcerated men, this article explores how former prisoners navigate criminal justice and welfare bureaucracies in their daily lives. Formerly-incarcerated men must repeatedly engage with parole, public assistance agencies, transitional housing facilities, and community-based service providers to maintain freedom and access food, shelter, and rehabilitative ser…
The ideological work of penal reform: How reformers justify penal-welfare hybridization
This article uses the Santa Clara County Reentry Resource Center (RRC) as a case study to explore the cultural content of penal reform. Specifically, we explore the discourses that officials use to publicly justify projects of penal-welfare hybridization, or the linking of state systems of punishment and welfare to manage criminalized populations. Our qualitative analysis draws on a dataset consisting of county planning documents, budgets, videos…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works)