Enforcing freedom : drug courts, therapeutic communities, and the intimacies of the state / Kerwin Kaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye, Kerwin, author.

Series:

Studies in transgression

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--United States.

Drug addicts.

Drug addicts--Rehabilitation.

United States.

Drug courts--United States.

Drug courts.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Physical Description:

xi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Policing addiction in a new era of therapeutic jurisprudence

Drug court paternalism and the management of threat

Today is the first day of the rest of your life : therapeutic practice within TCS and the history of Synanon

Control and agency in contemporary TCS

Gender, sexuality and the "drugs lifestyle"

Retrenchment and reform in the war on drugs

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231172882

0231172885

9780231172899

0231172893

OCLC:

1065734556