Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / Allison McKim.
2017
KF3829.N2 M35 2017 (Mapit)
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Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / Allison McKim.
Imprint
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017.
Description
vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Critical issues in crime and society.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Rehab is the new black
Intake : pathways to treatment
Women's treatment services : addicted to punishment
Women's treatment services : habilitating broken women
Gladstone Lodge : haven for the chemically dependent
Gladstone Lodge : learning to live sober
Conclusion: Governing through addiction.
Intake : pathways to treatment
Women's treatment services : addicted to punishment
Women's treatment services : habilitating broken women
Gladstone Lodge : haven for the chemically dependent
Gladstone Lodge : learning to live sober
Conclusion: Governing through addiction.
Summary
"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."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-217) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF3829.N2 M35 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780813587639 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0813587638 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780813587622 (paperback; alkaline paper)
081358762X (paperback; alkaline paper)
9780813587646 (e-book ; epub)
9780813587653 (e-book ; web pdf)
9780813590615 (e-book ; mobi)
0813587638 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780813587622 (paperback; alkaline paper)
081358762X (paperback; alkaline paper)
9780813587646 (e-book ; epub)
9780813587653 (e-book ; web pdf)
9780813590615 (e-book ; mobi)
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