Illness or Deviance? (eBook)

Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, and the Ambiguity of Addiction

Jennifer Murphy (Autor)

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2015
244 Seiten
Temple University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1024-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Is drug addiction a disease that can be treated, or is it a crime that should be punished? In her probing study, Illness or Deviance?, Jennifer Murphy investigates the various perspectives on addiction, and how society has myriad ways of handling it-incarcerating some drug users while putting others in treatment. Illness or Deviance? highlights the confusion and contradictions about labeling addiction. Murphy's fieldwork in a drug court and an outpatient drug treatment facility yields fascinating insights, such as how courts and treatment centers both enforce the "e;disease"e; label of addiction, yet their management tactics overlap treatment with "e;therapeutic punishment."e; The "e;addict"e; label is a result not just of using drugs, but also of being a part of the drug lifestyle, by selling drugs. In addition, Murphy observes that drug courts and treatment facilities benefit economically from their cooperation, creating a very powerful institutional arrangement. Murphy contextualizes her findings within theories of medical sociology as well as criminology to identify the policy implications of a medicalized view of addiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4399-1024-3 / 1439910243
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-1024-5 / 9781439910245