Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072LRPZW4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 353 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Addicted to Rehab is an important and timely contribution to the literature on mass incarceration, drug treatment, and social inequality. McKim provides crucial insight into these realms through her spectacular and engaging research."
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. 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. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision. . Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class. McKim’s book shows how addiction rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration