The Runaround
Punishment, Welfare, and Poverty Survival after Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2245258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Halushka (0000-0002-6217-4829, San Jose State University, corresponding author), John M Halushka (San Jose State University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-250 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/socpro/spz018 |
| OpenAlex | W2955731930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 46 |
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 services. Accessing resources requires the men simultaneously to manage multiple, overlapping entanglements across a fragmented network of bureaucracies. This runaround exacerbates the stress of poverty, breeds distrust of state authorities, and, in some cases, precipitates recidivism. Former prisoners learned how to cope with the runaround by treating systems navigation as a full-time occupation, but these skills did not translate into long-term economic security. Most study participants recurrently cycled between low-wage jobs, transitional housing facilities, and public assistance programs for years after release. This article illustrates the need to theorize prisoner reentry as a process that unfolds across a network of criminal justice and welfare bureaucracies and demonstrates how formerly-incarcerated men experience citizenship not only through coercive encounters with the criminal justice system but also through their simultaneous entanglements with safety-net bureaucracies
Bureaucracy · Criminal justice · Criminology · Distrust · Economic Justice · Political science · Poverty · Prison · Punishment (psychology) · Recidivism · Sociology · Welfare · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Employment and Welfare Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Swinging Doors
Ending Mass Incarceration
Charity and Shame
Women’s Lived Experiences with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
“Labeled, Branded, Marginalized, Stigmatized … in the Service of Public Safety”
Untrustworthy subjects? Risks, blame and gradual prison release in Ukraine
Navigating the Monetary Sanctions Maze
Examining the “On the Books” Versus “In the Field” Impacts of Probation Reform
Beyond “pains” and “gains”
Urban Neoliberal Debt Peonage
Pandemic Poverty Governance
Who should be on electronic monitoring
Shifting the practice of coercive penal care over time in a problem-solving court
The resettlement net
The Struggle is Real”
The symbolic currency of labor at the parole board
Strong-arm Sobriety
The Right Kind of Crazy”
The Promise and Practice of Care in Prisoner Reentry 1 , 2
Drug Treatment Courts According to Criminal Defence Lawyers
De/Medicalisation is not the problem
Criminalized Subjectivity
“A Program, Not the Projects”
We’re Here to Help”
Help after Hardship
Wasted Time
Bodies in the Building”
“It’s two separate systems that … keep you under a thumb”
Automating administrative burden in algorithmic criminal record expungement
Structural competency in the post-prison period for people who inject drugs
The Effects of Imprisonment in a Time of Mass Incarceration
Careers in Criminalization
Social work’s role in both direct practice and advocacy to sustain tenancies and prevent homelessness
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting
The More You Do through This Program, the Better It’s Going to Look in Court’
Adjudication Under Cover
Shuffling Within the System
Ready to Rent
A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers' Relationships with Criminalized Women
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity
From the State to the Street
Does 'social infrastructure' curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms
Homeward
Down, Out, and Under Arrest
Misdemeanorland
Negotiating Opportunities
Pedigree
Marked
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
On the Run
Work and the Welfare State
Flat Broke with Children
When prisoners come home
Disciplining the Poor
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Punishing the Poor
Arresting Citizenship
Patients of the State
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
How Institutions Deprive
Punishment Beyond the Legal Offender
Devolving the carceral state
Managing rehabilitation
The construction and stewardship of responsible yet precarious subjects
Short-timing
Carceral Citizenship
I do what I’m told, sort of
The Missing Organizational Dimension of Prisoner Reentry
Making Ends Meet After Prison
Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city
Interorganizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System
The New Jim Crow
On the Run
Invisible Inequality
Getting to Know You
From the Long Arm of the State to Eyes on the Street
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
Talk Is Cheap
Transitions from Prison to Community
Flat Broke with Children
Incarcerated Fatherhood
Negotiating the discourse of race within the United States welfare system
Relational ethnography
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |