Enforcing freedom : drug courts, therapeutic communities, and the intimacies of the state /

Kerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaye, Kerwin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Series:Studies in transgression.
Subjects:
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > United States.
Drug courts > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Toxicomanes > Réadaptation > États-Unis.
Tribunaux spécialisés en matière de drogue > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation.
Drug courts.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Policing addiction in a new era of therapeutic jurisprudence
  • Drug court paternalism and the management of threat
  • Today is the first day of the rest of your life : rehabilitative practice within therapeutic communities and the history of Synanon
  • Control and agency in contemporary therapeutic communities
  • Gender, sexuality and the drugs lifestyle
  • Retrenchment and reform in the war on drugs.

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