鲁本-乔纳森-米勒 社会学家、犯罪学家

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鲁本-乔纳森-米勒
社会学家、犯罪学家和社会工作者 - 2022级
追踪监禁和重返社会系统对个人及其家庭生活的长期影响。


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标题
社会学家、犯罪学家和社会工作者
工作单位
芝加哥大学Crown Family社会工作、政策和实践学院
工作地点
芝加哥，伊利诺伊州
年龄
获奖时46岁
重点领域
社会学、刑事司法
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发表于2022年10月12日
关于鲁本的工作
鲁本-乔纳森-米勒是一名社会学家、犯罪学家和社会工作者，研究监禁对个人及其家庭生活的长期影响，重点是有色人种社区和生活在贫困中的人。他的学术研究涉及大规模监禁和监管时代生活的许多方面，包括警务、创伤和囚犯再入计划。他特别深入地探讨了监禁的后果，并从一个接近的地方写下了这个主题。

米勒早期的人种学研究研究了刑事司法政策的转变，从以监狱为基础的康复计划转向以职业培训和就业为重点。相反，康复服务正被外包给社区社会福利组织。在其他工作中，米勒和一位合著者认为，曾经被监禁的人被迫进入一种被无数法律、限制和障碍所制约的 "福利公民 "的缩小形式。米勒在他的《半途而废》一书中扩大了他的关注点和目标受众。种族、惩罚和大规模监禁的来世》（2021年）。除了历史和理论研究以及在芝加哥、底特律和其他城市进行的15年的人种学实地调查外，米勒还借鉴了他在芝加哥库克县监狱担任志愿牧师的经历，以及他与他的兄弟和父亲的肉体纠葛的经历。米勒没有将他的研究与他的个人经历分开，而是将他的经历视为一种财富。这使他能够更有力地传达他的研究对象的全部人性以及他们所处的复杂社会现实。由此产生的沉浸式作品部分是回忆录，部分是对刑事司法系统与种族和贫困交织的社会学研究。他的研究对象每天都会遇到相互冲突的缓刑官僚机构以及住房和就业方面的障碍，这些障碍使得改造目标极难实现。米勒以生动和直接的方式详细描述了他的对象为生存而必须依赖的恩惠经济。他还讲述了有犯罪记录的人的家庭成员所承受的经济和情感上的损失--从剥削性的电话费到驱逐的威胁。

米勒的下一个项目将调查那些被社会视为暴力的人的 "道德世界"。他目前正在对被判犯有暴力罪行或被认定有暴力行为风险的人进行数百次采访。米勒正在示范一种写他的对象的方式，拒绝将他们简化为他们的困难，他正在阐明美国的监禁制度是如何在他们的服刑期结束后长期重塑个人的生活和关系。

个人简历
鲁本-乔纳森-米勒在芝加哥州立大学获得学士学位（2006年），在芝加哥大学获得硕士学位（2007年），并在芝加哥洛约拉大学获得博士学位（2013年）。他在密歇根大学担任助理教授（2013-2017），然后于2017年加入芝加哥大学皇冠家族社会工作、政策和实践学院的教师队伍。他在芝加哥大学的种族、散居和土著系、社会学系以及种族、政治和文化研究中心担任附属职务。他也是美国律师基金会的研究教授。米勒的文章出现在《理论犯罪学》、《惩罚与社会》和《社会服务评论》等出版物上。

鲁本的话


一个身着深蓝色西装的黑人男子坐在庭院花园的椅子上，背景是一栋石头建筑。


"历史并不是线性的。时间流逝，但我们不会从一个胜利走向另一个胜利，直到我们更接近某个版本的真相或某个伟大的新世界，在那里我们的问题都消失了。我们也没有完善我们的联盟，不是以我们通常谈论的方式。我们的斗争是为了创造一个人人都属于的世界，即使是我们已经学会害怕的人。(摘自《半途而废》)"




Reuben Jonathan Miller
Sociologist, Criminologist, and Social Worker | Class of 2022
Tracing the long-term consequences that incarceration and re-entry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families.


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Title
Sociologist, Criminologist, and Social Worker
Affiliation
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Age
46 at time of award
Area of Focus
Sociology, Criminal Justice
Website
University of Chicago: Reuben Jonathan Miller
American Bar Foundation: Reuben Jonthan Miller
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Published October 12, 2022
ABOUT REUBEN’S WORK
Reuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist, criminologist, and social worker examining the long-term consequences of incarceration on the lives of individuals and their families, with a focus on communities of color and those living in poverty. His scholarship addresses many aspects of life in the age of mass incarceration and supervision, spanning policing, trauma, and prisoner re-entry programs. He explores the aftermath of imprisonment in particular depth and writes about this subject from a place of proximity.

Miller’s early ethnographic research studies the shift in criminal justice policy away from prison-based rehabilitation programs focused on vocational training and employment. Instead, rehabilitation services are being outsourced to community social welfare organizations. In other work, Miller and a co-author argue that formerly incarcerated people are forced into a diminished form of “carceral citizenship” governed by myriad laws, restrictions, and obstacles. Miller broadens his focus and intended audience with his book Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (2021). In addition to historical and theoretical research and fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, Miller draws on his time as a volunteer chaplain at Chicago’s Cook County Jail and his experiences with the carceral entanglements of his brother and father. Rather than separating his research from his personal experiences, Miller sees his experience as an asset. It enables him to convey more powerfully the full humanity of his subjects and the complex social realities in which they are embedded. The resulting immersive work is part memoir and part sociological study of the intersection of the criminal justice system with race and poverty. It is deeply informed by his subjects’ everyday encounters with conflicting probation bureaucracies as well as barriers to housing and employment that make rehabilitation goals extremely difficult to achieve. Miller details with vividness and immediacy the economy of favors his subjects must depend on for survival. He also recounts the financial and emotional tolls—from exploitative phone charges to threats of eviction—borne by family members of those with criminal records.

Miller's next project will investigate the “moral worlds” of people who society deems violent. He is currently conducting hundreds of interviews with individuals convicted of violent crimes or identified as at risk of violent behavior. Miller is modeling a way to write about his subjects that refuses to reduce them to their hardships, and he is illuminating how the American carceral system reshapes individuals' lives and relationships long after their time has been served.

BIOGRAPHY
Reuben Jonathan Miller received a BA (2006) from Chicago State University, an AM (2007) from the University of Chicago, and a PhD (2013) from Loyola University Chicago. He served as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan (2013–2017) prior to joining the faculty of the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago in 2017. He holds affiliate positions in the University of Chicago’s Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, Department of Sociology, and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. He is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. Articles by Miller have appeared in such publications as Theoretical Criminology, Punishment & Society, and Social Service Review, among other publications.

IN REUBEN'S WORDS


A Black man in a dark blue suit sits on a chair in a courtyard garden with a stone building in the background.


”History isn't linear. Time passes, but we don't move from one victory to another until we get closer to some version of the truth or some great new world where our problems have disappeared. And we don't perfect our union, not in ways we typically talk about. Our struggle is about making a world in which everyone belongs, even the people we've learned to be afraid of. (from Halfway Home)”