Author: Allison McKim
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813587654
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
Addicted to Rehab
Author: Allison McKim
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813587654
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813587654
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
The Man I Was Destined to Be
Author: Michael Tandoi
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490802169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
When Michael was twenty-seven years old, his lengthy battle with drug addiction resulted in a seven-year prison sentence. It would take three years and the death of his father before he realized that his former life prevented him from becoming the man his father hoped he would be. Walking the road to recovery enabled him to change his life and become the man he was destined to be.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490802169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
When Michael was twenty-seven years old, his lengthy battle with drug addiction resulted in a seven-year prison sentence. It would take three years and the death of his father before he realized that his former life prevented him from becoming the man his father hoped he would be. Walking the road to recovery enabled him to change his life and become the man he was destined to be.
Addicted to Incarceration
Author: Travis C. Pratt
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761928324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Provides a thorough understanding of the nature and scope of incareration.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761928324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Provides a thorough understanding of the nature and scope of incareration.
The Fellas
Author: Charles M. Terry
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An engaging writer, Chuck Terry presents this powerful study on the tremendous obstacles that drug addicts drifting in and out of prison must overcome in order to get clean and "make it" in society. Thoroughly researched and based on sound theory, this text covers how societal reaction to drugs and addiction shape criminal policy and behavior. Terry's powerful voice as a writer brings each of "the fellas" to life as he tells their story on how they became addicts and documents their on going struggle with addiction---both in and out of prison. Terry follows the story of "the fellas" as they beat the odds, get clean, and try to make a better life for themselves. And, he tells the somber story of those who are not able to overcome the obstacles of drugs and prison.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An engaging writer, Chuck Terry presents this powerful study on the tremendous obstacles that drug addicts drifting in and out of prison must overcome in order to get clean and "make it" in society. Thoroughly researched and based on sound theory, this text covers how societal reaction to drugs and addiction shape criminal policy and behavior. Terry's powerful voice as a writer brings each of "the fellas" to life as he tells their story on how they became addicts and documents their on going struggle with addiction---both in and out of prison. Terry follows the story of "the fellas" as they beat the odds, get clean, and try to make a better life for themselves. And, he tells the somber story of those who are not able to overcome the obstacles of drugs and prison.
Chancers
Author: Susan Stellin
Publisher:
ISBN: 1101882743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"For readers of Beautiful Boy, Drinking- A Love Story, andDrycomes a brave shared memoir, told in alternating chapters, of love, addiction, devotion, and redemption. When Stanford-educated New York Timesjournalist Susan Stellin met the edgy and charming Scottish portrait photographer Graham MacIndoe, they fell hard and fast. But after their romantic first few months together, Graham's addiction to heroin and crack slowly eroded their relationship. In Chancers, they tell their story, from Graham's arrest for drug possession, his stint at Riker's Island, and his looming threat of deportation to Susan's struggles, first to distance herself, then to follow her instincts to help him."
Publisher:
ISBN: 1101882743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"For readers of Beautiful Boy, Drinking- A Love Story, andDrycomes a brave shared memoir, told in alternating chapters, of love, addiction, devotion, and redemption. When Stanford-educated New York Timesjournalist Susan Stellin met the edgy and charming Scottish portrait photographer Graham MacIndoe, they fell hard and fast. But after their romantic first few months together, Graham's addiction to heroin and crack slowly eroded their relationship. In Chancers, they tell their story, from Graham's arrest for drug possession, his stint at Riker's Island, and his looming threat of deportation to Susan's struggles, first to distance herself, then to follow her instincts to help him."
Getting Wrecked
Author: Kimberly Sue
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520293207
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women’s lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520293207
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women’s lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma.
Rethinking Corrections
Author: Lior Gideon
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412970180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
Explores the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration. Each chapter focuses on a specific phase of the process.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412970180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
Explores the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration. Each chapter focuses on a specific phase of the process.
Mass Imprisonment
Author: David Garland
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761973249
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761973249
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture.
I Dream about You
Author: Erika Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734320008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
I DREAM ABOUT YOU: Stories of Addiction, Incarceration and Family Love is a collection of 16 stories by incarcerated women and girls, interweaving their dreams of the drugs they have had to give up (often depicted as lost lovers) with their dreams of the children, family members and lives they have left behind. An additional two stories reflecting Family Voices, appear in a section of their own, enhancing the collective understanding of the interwoven threads of addiction, incarceration and mothering. We bring these stories into the world to help to erase the stigma faced by addicted mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters and wives who are the most vilified and maligned members of our society, regardless of whether they come from communities of privilege or communities ravaged by poverty, hunger, inequality and injustice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734320008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
I DREAM ABOUT YOU: Stories of Addiction, Incarceration and Family Love is a collection of 16 stories by incarcerated women and girls, interweaving their dreams of the drugs they have had to give up (often depicted as lost lovers) with their dreams of the children, family members and lives they have left behind. An additional two stories reflecting Family Voices, appear in a section of their own, enhancing the collective understanding of the interwoven threads of addiction, incarceration and mothering. We bring these stories into the world to help to erase the stigma faced by addicted mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters and wives who are the most vilified and maligned members of our society, regardless of whether they come from communities of privilege or communities ravaged by poverty, hunger, inequality and injustice.
Punishment and Civilization
Author: John Pratt
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412933226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that ′civilization′ prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that process thereafter. ...He [Pratt] has at the very least broadened the boundaries of the debate about the history of imprisonment in new and novel ways that will surely become a basis for future analysis′ - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice ′In presenting and organizing such a wealth of historical material, John Pratt′s book will be welcomed by those who teach and study the history of the prison in the English-speaking world′ - Criminal Justice Punishment and Civilization examines how a framework of punishment that suited the values and standards of the civilized world came to be set in place from around 1800 to the late 20th century. In this book, John Pratt draws on research about prison architecture, clothing, diet, hygienic arrangements and changes in penal language to establish this. The author demonstrates that this did not mean, however, that such a framework of punishment was ′civilized′. Instead it meant that punishment in the civilized world became anonymous and remote. Prison brutalities and privations could be largely unchecked by a public that did not want to be involved. In the last few decades it has become clear that civilized societies have to tolerate new boundaries of punishment. This is not because of any development of ′civilized punishment′. Instead this is due to a shift in public mood and power: from public indifference to public involvement in penal development. Throughout this text theoretical ideas and concepts are accessibly introduced and illustrated with a wide range of examples from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It will be essential reading for students and academics of punishment, prisons and social theory.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412933226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that ′civilization′ prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that process thereafter. ...He [Pratt] has at the very least broadened the boundaries of the debate about the history of imprisonment in new and novel ways that will surely become a basis for future analysis′ - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice ′In presenting and organizing such a wealth of historical material, John Pratt′s book will be welcomed by those who teach and study the history of the prison in the English-speaking world′ - Criminal Justice Punishment and Civilization examines how a framework of punishment that suited the values and standards of the civilized world came to be set in place from around 1800 to the late 20th century. In this book, John Pratt draws on research about prison architecture, clothing, diet, hygienic arrangements and changes in penal language to establish this. The author demonstrates that this did not mean, however, that such a framework of punishment was ′civilized′. Instead it meant that punishment in the civilized world became anonymous and remote. Prison brutalities and privations could be largely unchecked by a public that did not want to be involved. In the last few decades it has become clear that civilized societies have to tolerate new boundaries of punishment. This is not because of any development of ′civilized punishment′. Instead this is due to a shift in public mood and power: from public indifference to public involvement in penal development. Throughout this text theoretical ideas and concepts are accessibly introduced and illustrated with a wide range of examples from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It will be essential reading for students and academics of punishment, prisons and social theory.