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Reuben Miller

A Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record, demonstrating how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement.

True Crime & JusticeTrue Crime & Justice · medium confidenceTrue Crime & Justice81 signalsLlm Classifier: True Crime & Justice -> True Crime & JusticeOpen Library: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CulturePrisons & IncarcerationCrime, Policing & ViolenceArchives, Museums & Historical MethodHuman Rights & International Law

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Anthropology and Sociology2022WinnerOfficial source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The book argues that America’s justice system is structured to disenfranchise people with criminal records, functioning less to rehabilitate than to impose lifelong consequences.

    Model confidence 66%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    44 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 52%.