Reuben Jonathan Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reuben Jonathan Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reuben Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5670-4559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 266 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Toward a politic of welcome
No abstract
Writing from the flesh
The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century
Previous articleNext article FreeIntroductionThe Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?Reuben Jonathan MillerReuben Jonathan MillerUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe live in troubling times. As I write this…
Racism in the Machine
The Front End of the Carceral State
A promising new field of research examines racial disparities within the criminal legal system and reveals how mass incarceration contributes to already-existing social inequalities. This essay reviews three books that considerably advance this field: Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel; A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor, by A…
Everyday Discrimination Among African American Men
The present study examined the impact of criminal justice contact on experiences of everyday discrimination among a national sample of African American men. African American men have a high likelihood of being the targets of major discrimination as well as experiencing disproportionate contact with the criminal justice system. Few studies, however, examine everyday discrimination (e.g., commonplace social encounters of unfair treatment) among thi…
Discrimination Fully Mediates the Effects of Incarceration History on Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress Among African American Men
Carceral Citizenship
Scholars have shown how formal processes of legal exclusion coupled with ubiquitous criminal justice contact relegate the largely black poor targets of the carceral state to second-class citizenship. Building upon but departing from this work, we reveal how carceral expansion has not just produced new forms of second-class citizenship for poor black Americans, but an alternate citizenship category and a distinct form of political membership—what …
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
Stop and Frisk Online
Police are increasingly monitoring social media to build evidence for criminal indictments. In 2014, 103 alleged gang members residing in public housing in Harlem, New York, were arrested in what has been called 'the largest gang bust in history.' The arrests came after the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent 4 years monitoring the social media communication of these suspected gang members. In this article, we explore the implications of usin…
The Prisonized Old Head
Over the last four decades, the United States' criminal justice system has undergone a historic expansion, which has disproportionately impacted poor urban neighborhoods. The meteoric rise in the percentage of the urban poor either on their way to, in, or recently released from jail or prison has led a number of scholars to theorize a "fusion of ghetto and prison culture" (Wacquant 2001). The exact sources and contours of this fusion, however, re…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in the Wake of a National Crisis
This introduction to the special issue will ground our understanding of the current state of Black boys and men in America, nearly 2 years after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Each of these articles represents the voices of scholars whose influences add clarity to the experiences and aftermath of traumatic events that threaten the safety and well-being of Black boys and men. Collectively, these articles showcase various resea…
Hardiness Scripts
Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to chronic stressors during adolescence that impact thei…
The Price of Carceral Citizenship
The unprecedented rise in the number of people held in U.S. jails and prisons has garnered considerable attention from policy makers, activists, and academics alike. Signaled in part by Michelle Alexander’s New York Times bestseller, The New Jim Crow, and the unlikely coalition of activists, policy makers, celebrities, and business leaders on both sides of the political aisle who have pledged to end mass incarceration in our lifetime, the prison …
Baldwin’s Mill
Written in the 50th anniversary of the historic debate between author and social critic James Baldwin and the “father of American conservatism” William F. Buckley, we extract from the corpus of Baldwin’s social critique a method to grasp emergent forms of marginality in the contemporary age. Described as a mill, Baldwin shows how everyday interactions shaped the behaviors and meaning making of black Americans during the civil rights era, teaching…
Devolving the carceral state
This article presents findings from an ethnographic study of prisoner reentry programming in a large Midwestern city to better understand the strategies reentry organizations employ to ‘rehabilitate’ prisoners and the ways in which those strategies articulate with larger social policy processes. Prisoner reentry is a hybrid welfare state–criminal justice institution. As the rehabilitative strategy of choice in the current age, the ascendance and …
Race, Hyper‐Incarceration, and US Poverty Policy in Historic Perspective
In this article, I bring scholarship on welfare reform into discussion with work on crime control and racial and ethnic relations. I locate the genesis of hyper‐incarceration and the moral suasion imposed on the recipients of contemporary social welfare services through the poverty policies of the Victorian era and later the postbellum south, implicating the checkered history of racial domination in the United States in the development of social …
Poor Peoples' Movements and the Power to Disrupt
During this interview with academic and activist icon Frances Fox Piven, we discussed the arc of her career, the challenges of U.S. neoliberalization, the role of the academy in fostering resistance, and the possibilities of social action through poor people's movements given the current political, economic, and social climate
Poverty, Incarceration
Punishing the Poor
The recent publication by Loic Wacquant, Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, has been the subject of numerous review symposia. It has been covered by international m
Carceral Citizenship
Scholars have shown how formal processes of legal exclusion coupled with ubiquitous criminal justice contact relegate the largely black poor targets of the carceral state to second-class citizenship. Building upon but departing from this work, we reveal how carceral expansion has not just produced new forms of second-class citizenship for poor black Americans, but an alternate citizenship category and a distinct form of political membership—what …
Devolving the carceral state
This article presents findings from an ethnographic study of prisoner reentry programming in a large Midwestern city to better understand the strategies reentry organizations employ to ‘rehabilitate’ prisoners and the ways in which those strategies articulate with larger social policy processes. Prisoner reentry is a hybrid welfare state–criminal justice institution. As the rehabilitative strategy of choice in the current age, the ascendance and …
Discrimination Fully Mediates the Effects of Incarceration History on Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress Among African American Men
Everyday Discrimination Among African American Men
The present study examined the impact of criminal justice contact on experiences of everyday discrimination among a national sample of African American men. African American men have a high likelihood of being the targets of major discrimination as well as experiencing disproportionate contact with the criminal justice system. Few studies, however, examine everyday discrimination (e.g., commonplace social encounters of unfair treatment) among thi…
Race, Hyper‐Incarceration, and US Poverty Policy in Historic Perspective
In this article, I bring scholarship on welfare reform into discussion with work on crime control and racial and ethnic relations. I locate the genesis of hyper‐incarceration and the moral suasion imposed on the recipients of contemporary social welfare services through the poverty policies of the Victorian era and later the postbellum south, implicating the checkered history of racial domination in the United States in the development of social …
The Price of Carceral Citizenship
The unprecedented rise in the number of people held in U.S. jails and prisons has garnered considerable attention from policy makers, activists, and academics alike. Signaled in part by Michelle Alexander’s New York Times bestseller, The New Jim Crow, and the unlikely coalition of activists, policy makers, celebrities, and business leaders on both sides of the political aisle who have pledged to end mass incarceration in our lifetime, the prison …
Stop and Frisk Online
Police are increasingly monitoring social media to build evidence for criminal indictments. In 2014, 103 alleged gang members residing in public housing in Harlem, New York, were arrested in what has been called 'the largest gang bust in history.' The arrests came after the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent 4 years monitoring the social media communication of these suspected gang members. In this article, we explore the implications of usin…
The Prisonized Old Head
Over the last four decades, the United States' criminal justice system has undergone a historic expansion, which has disproportionately impacted poor urban neighborhoods. The meteoric rise in the percentage of the urban poor either on their way to, in, or recently released from jail or prison has led a number of scholars to theorize a "fusion of ghetto and prison culture" (Wacquant 2001). The exact sources and contours of this fusion, however, re…
The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century
Previous articleNext article FreeIntroductionThe Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?Reuben Jonathan MillerReuben Jonathan MillerUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe live in troubling times. As I write this…
The Front End of the Carceral State
A promising new field of research examines racial disparities within the criminal legal system and reveals how mass incarceration contributes to already-existing social inequalities. This essay reviews three books that considerably advance this field: Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel; A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor, by A…
Hardiness Scripts
Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to chronic stressors during adolescence that impact thei…
Baldwin’s Mill
Written in the 50th anniversary of the historic debate between author and social critic James Baldwin and the “father of American conservatism” William F. Buckley, we extract from the corpus of Baldwin’s social critique a method to grasp emergent forms of marginality in the contemporary age. Described as a mill, Baldwin shows how everyday interactions shaped the behaviors and meaning making of black Americans during the civil rights era, teaching…
Toward a politic of welcome
No abstract
Poverty, Incarceration
Punishing the Poor
The recent publication by Loic Wacquant, Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, has been the subject of numerous review symposia. It has been covered by international m
Poor Peoples' Movements and the Power to Disrupt
During this interview with academic and activist icon Frances Fox Piven, we discussed the arc of her career, the challenges of U.S. neoliberalization, the role of the academy in fostering resistance, and the possibilities of social action through poor people's movements given the current political, economic, and social climate
Poverty, Incarceration
Race, Hyper‐Incarceration, and US Poverty Policy in Historic Perspective
In this article, I bring scholarship on welfare reform into discussion with work on crime control and racial and ethnic relations. I locate the genesis of hyper‐incarceration and the moral suasion imposed on the recipients of contemporary social welfare services through the poverty policies of the Victorian era and later the postbellum south, implicating the checkered history of racial domination in the United States in the development of social …
Devolving the carceral state
This article presents findings from an ethnographic study of prisoner reentry programming in a large Midwestern city to better understand the strategies reentry organizations employ to ‘rehabilitate’ prisoners and the ways in which those strategies articulate with larger social policy processes. Prisoner reentry is a hybrid welfare state–criminal justice institution. As the rehabilitative strategy of choice in the current age, the ascendance and …
Baldwin’s Mill
Written in the 50th anniversary of the historic debate between author and social critic James Baldwin and the “father of American conservatism” William F. Buckley, we extract from the corpus of Baldwin’s social critique a method to grasp emergent forms of marginality in the contemporary age. Described as a mill, Baldwin shows how everyday interactions shaped the behaviors and meaning making of black Americans during the civil rights era, teaching…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in the Wake of a National Crisis
This introduction to the special issue will ground our understanding of the current state of Black boys and men in America, nearly 2 years after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Each of these articles represents the voices of scholars whose influences add clarity to the experiences and aftermath of traumatic events that threaten the safety and well-being of Black boys and men. Collectively, these articles showcase various resea…
Hardiness Scripts
Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to chronic stressors during adolescence that impact thei…
The Price of Carceral Citizenship
The unprecedented rise in the number of people held in U.S. jails and prisons has garnered considerable attention from policy makers, activists, and academics alike. Signaled in part by Michelle Alexander’s New York Times bestseller, The New Jim Crow, and the unlikely coalition of activists, policy makers, celebrities, and business leaders on both sides of the political aisle who have pledged to end mass incarceration in our lifetime, the prison …
Carceral Citizenship
Scholars have shown how formal processes of legal exclusion coupled with ubiquitous criminal justice contact relegate the largely black poor targets of the carceral state to second-class citizenship. Building upon but departing from this work, we reveal how carceral expansion has not just produced new forms of second-class citizenship for poor black Americans, but an alternate citizenship category and a distinct form of political membership—what …
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
Stop and Frisk Online
Police are increasingly monitoring social media to build evidence for criminal indictments. In 2014, 103 alleged gang members residing in public housing in Harlem, New York, were arrested in what has been called 'the largest gang bust in history.' The arrests came after the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent 4 years monitoring the social media communication of these suspected gang members. In this article, we explore the implications of usin…
The Prisonized Old Head
Over the last four decades, the United States' criminal justice system has undergone a historic expansion, which has disproportionately impacted poor urban neighborhoods. The meteoric rise in the percentage of the urban poor either on their way to, in, or recently released from jail or prison has led a number of scholars to theorize a "fusion of ghetto and prison culture" (Wacquant 2001). The exact sources and contours of this fusion, however, re…
The Front End of the Carceral State
A promising new field of research examines racial disparities within the criminal legal system and reveals how mass incarceration contributes to already-existing social inequalities. This essay reviews three books that considerably advance this field: Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel; A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor, by A…
Everyday Discrimination Among African American Men
The present study examined the impact of criminal justice contact on experiences of everyday discrimination among a national sample of African American men. African American men have a high likelihood of being the targets of major discrimination as well as experiencing disproportionate contact with the criminal justice system. Few studies, however, examine everyday discrimination (e.g., commonplace social encounters of unfair treatment) among thi…
Discrimination Fully Mediates the Effects of Incarceration History on Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress Among African American Men
Racism in the Machine
The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century
Previous articleNext article FreeIntroductionThe Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?Reuben Jonathan MillerReuben Jonathan MillerUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe live in troubling times. As I write this…
Writing from the flesh
Toward a politic of welcome
No abstract
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminal justice (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works)