Cycles of Debt and Punishment

A Symposium on Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers

Bibliographic Data

ID21373256
AuthorsJason M Williams (0000-0003-4663-8993, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA, corresponding author), Lynne Haney (New York University, New York, NY, USA), Maretta Darnell Mcdonald (0000-0002-9983-7147, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Maretta Mcdonald (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA), Michael B Mitchell (College of New Jersey)
Year2023
Volume103
Issue5
Pages567-585
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Prison Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-8855 • E-ISSN: 1552-7522
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00328855231200630
OpenAlexW4386724776
LanguageEN
References cited19

In the contemporary United States, millions of fathers cycle through the criminal justice and child support systems—cycles that create new forms of debt and disadvantage. This symposium discusses those cycles and their effects on fathers and their families. Through comments on Lynne Haney's book, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers, the authors analyze the criminalization of child support and the ways it complicates reentry after prison. They engage Haney's arguments about the causes and consequences of prisons of debt and her empirical material on men's struggles as indebted fathers—or, as Michael Mitchell put it, the book's insistence on “getting proximate to human suffering.”

Criminal justice · Criminalization · Criminology · Debt · Disadvantage · Economic Justice · Economics · Mass incarceration · Political science · Prison · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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