Kaye Enforcing Freedom

Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54709-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Transgression

In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom 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.

Situating drug courts in a long line of state projects of race and class control, Kerwin Kaye details the ways in which the violence of the state is framed as beneficial for those subjected to it. He explores how courts decide whether to release or incarcerate participants using nominally colorblind criteria that draw on racialized imagery. Rehabilitation is defined as preparation for low-wage labor and the destruction of community ties with “bad influences,” a process that turns participants against one another. At the same time, Kaye points toward the complex ways in which participants negotiate state control in relation to other forms of constraint in their lives, sometimes embracing the state’s salutary violence as a means of countering their impoverishment. Simultaneously sensitive to ethnographic detail and theoretical implications, Enforcing Freedom offers a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaye, Kerwin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat
3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon
4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities
5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle
6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on Drugs
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kaye Kerwin :

Kerwin Kaye (PhD, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University.Kerwin Kaye is assistant professor of sociology at Wesleyan University.