Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / Allison McKim.
McKim, Allison, author.
2017
HV5801 .M355 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / Allison McKim.
Author McKim, Allison, author.
ISBN 9780813587622 (paperback)
081358762X (paperback)
9780813587639 (hardcover)
0813587638 (hardcover)
9780813587646 (electronic book)
9780813587653 (electronic book)
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Language English
Description vii, 232 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number HV5801 .M355 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.29/180973
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.
Series Critical issues in crime and society.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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.

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