{"product_id":"prisons-of-debt-the-afterlives-of-incarcerated-fathers-hardcover","title":"Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynne Haney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. \u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e shows how these systems work together to create complex entanglements--rather than \"piling up\" in men's lives, these entanglements form feedback loops of disadvantage. The prison-child support pipeline flows in both directions, deepening parents' debt and criminal justice involvement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through moving accounts of men struggling to be fathers from behind prison walls and under the weight of support debt, \u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e exposes how the criminalization of child support undermines the most essential of familial relationships. Haney argues that these state systems can end up producing exactly the kind of parent they fear and loathe: bitter, unreliable, and cyclical fathers. Based on observations of 1,200 child support cases and interviews with 145 indebted fathers in New York, California, and Florida, \u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the actual practices of child support adjudication and enforcement alongside the lived realities of fathers trapped in those systems. The result is a rigorously documented analysis of how poor men are too often denied their rights of citizenship and of fatherhood.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolutely compelling and tragic account of how the child support and criminal legal systems jointly produce mass indebtedness among the most disadvantaged fathers, thereby exacerbating the problems they are supposed to solve. Lynne Haney's astute ethnographic observations, and her gripping in-depth interviews with fathers caught up in these intersecting systems, dismantle the 'deadbeat dad' trope, echoed in media and in court, to reveal the exceptionally high cost of our current child support policies for children, families, and society.--Mona Lynch, author of \u003ci\u003eHard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In Haney's beautifully written \u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, we learn what the merger of the criminal legal and child support systems has wrought for formerly incarcerated parents, especially low-income fathers of color, who bear the brunt of the dual systems' mutually reinforcing modes of surveillance and control. Punitive state policies both deny indebted parents' financial citizenship and deprive them of their liberty. The result: it is near impossible to resolve their ever-accumulating debt; it is also extremely difficult to contribute to their children's lives in satisfying and meaningful ways. It is a system that produces few, if any, winners: fathers struggle mightily to show up for their children; mothers continue to raise their children with meager support; and their children fail to get the resources and protections they need and deserve to survive and thrive. \u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and devastating account and a must-read for students of punishment and beyond.\"--Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and Faculty Chair for the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is a book of immense importance about the criminalization of poverty. Throwing poor people into debtors' prisons for their inability to pay child support is unconscionable, but as Haney tells us in this timely, pressing book, all too common.\"--Stephen Bright, Yale Law School,​ and former Director, Southern Center for Human Rights\u003cb\u003e​\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is an important book, extremely well researched, documented, illustrated, and argued. It provides a deep and thorough understanding of poverty governance and the mechanisms by which inequality is institutionally organized and reproduced. The ethnography and interviews are expertly woven through the text to provide rich, and at times dramatic, testimonies of the institutional processes central to the book.\"--Timothy Black, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eIt's a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An incredibly important book, both with respect to its rigor and multilayered analysis and the importance of its findings. \u003ci\u003ePrisons of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e successfully shows how child support orders are core to understanding the long reach or aftermath of mass incarceration experiences.\"--Sara Wakefield, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Haney\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at New York University and author of the award-winning books \u003ci\u003eOffending Women \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInventing the Needy\u003c\/i\u003e. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47484296003762,"sku":"9780520297258","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1c742ca6254571ad6364ae6da8a80000_8ceb0386-f56e-43b5-ac49-9c6bef7208cf.webp?v=1779274365","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/prisons-of-debt-the-afterlives-of-incarcerated-fathers-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}