Download PDF Addicted to Rehab Race Gender and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration Critical Issues in Crime and Society 9780813587622 Medicine Health Science Books
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After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population addiction treatment.
In Addicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system—two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. McKim’s book shows how addiction rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision. While reformers hope that treatment will offer an alternative to punishment and help women, McKim argues that the framework of addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women and undermines our capacity to challenge gendered subordination. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
In Addicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system—two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. McKim’s book shows how addiction rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision. While reformers hope that treatment will offer an alternative to punishment and help women, McKim argues that the framework of addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women and undermines our capacity to challenge gendered subordination. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
Download PDF Addicted to Rehab Race Gender and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration Critical Issues in Crime and Society 9780813587622 Medicine Health Science Books
"These days it seems like addiction treatment is everywhere as a solution to social problems that range from crime and poverty to unemployment and incarceration. While we literally ask addiction treatment to solve a whole range of social ills and problems we know fairly little about how recovery "works" and moreover what actually happens inside of these programs. This book takes you into the world of recovery as it unfolds today and argues how we define and address addiction in the healthcare market today looks very different from "alternative-to-incarceration" programs emerging and expanding in the criminal justice system. This is an amazing, must-read book for scholars and students of punishment, healthcare, drug policy makers, activists, and journalists alike. This book completely changed my way of thinking about addiction treatment... If we want to be serious about addressing a bloated criminal justice system, social and economic marginality of the poor and working classes as well as the increases in drug-related death, we're going to have to think beyond the holy-grail of rehab."
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Addicted to Rehab Race Gender and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration Critical Issues in Crime and Society 9780813587622 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews :
Addicted to Rehab Race Gender and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration Critical Issues in Crime and Society 9780813587622 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews
- These days it seems like addiction treatment is everywhere as a solution to social problems that range from crime and poverty to unemployment and incarceration. While we literally ask addiction treatment to solve a whole range of social ills and problems we know fairly little about how recovery "works" and moreover what actually happens inside of these programs. This book takes you into the world of recovery as it unfolds today and argues how we define and address addiction in the healthcare market today looks very different from "alternative-to-incarceration" programs emerging and expanding in the criminal justice system. This is an amazing, must-read book for scholars and students of punishment, healthcare, drug policy makers, activists, and journalists alike. This book completely changed my way of thinking about addiction treatment... If we want to be serious about addressing a bloated criminal justice system, social and economic marginality of the poor and working classes as well as the increases in drug-related death, we're going to have to think beyond the holy-grail of rehab.
- A very important, well-written book.
