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Author Kaye, Kerwin, author.

Title Enforcing freedom : drug courts, therapeutic communities, and the intimacies of the state / Kerwin Kaye.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
©2020
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in transgression
Studies in transgression.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 reform and points toward alternative paths forward.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation.
United States.
Drug courts -- United States.
Drug courts.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kaye, Kerwin. Enforcing freedom. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231172882 (DLC) 2019005950 (OCoLC)1065734556
ISBN 9780231547093 (electronic book)
0231547099 (electronic book)
9780231172882 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780231172899 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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