Reuben Jonathan Miller

Reuben Jonathan Miller, born 1976 in Chicago, is an American sociologist, criminologist, writer and social worker who examines the intersection of race, justice and social welfare policy. He is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. His scholarship traces how mass incarceration reshapes American citizenship and family life, particularly among poor and Black communities, drawing partly on his own experience as the brother and son of formerly incarcerated men. His 2021 book Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration argues that formerly incarcerated people remain perpetually constrained by their criminal records; it became a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award and the LA Times Book Prize and won the 2022 Herbert Jacob Book Prize and two PROSE Awards. In 2022 he received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work tracing the long-term consequences of incarceration and prisoner reentry on families in the United States. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/