Addicted to Rehab
Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Seiten
2017
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8762-2 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8762-2 (ISBN)
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, Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women.
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice
Winner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime
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.
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice
Winner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime
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.
ALLISON McKIM is an assistant professor of sociology at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York.
Introduction: Rehab Is the New Black
1 Intake: Pathways to Treatment
2 Addicted to Punishment
3 Habilitating Broken Women
4 A Haven for the Chemically Dependent
5 Learning to Live Sober
6 Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.07.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-8762-X / 081358762X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-8762-2 / 9780813587622 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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