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.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Allison McKim
EAN: 9780813587622
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 380 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Rutgers University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-07-03
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GENRE: MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
Social discrimination and social justice, Social classes, Gender studies: women and girls, Social services and welfare, criminology, Penology and punishment, Public health and preventive medicine, Addiction and therapy
"Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration provides an uncomfortable, yet necessary, analysis that is required of programs, such as WTS and the Lodge, that purport to fix' people and address social problems. This work makes important contributions to both theoretical and policy-oriented conversations in criminology and should serve as foundational reading for policy-makers and stakeholders working within the realm of rehabilitation and drug treatment."-- "Critical Criminology", "Addicted to Rehab is part of a small but growing group of carceral ethnographies that interrogate sites of punishment in the age of mass incarceration. To make sense of her observations, McKim draws on an impressive range of sociological literature."-- "American Journal of Sociology", "Addicted to Rehab is an important and timely contribution to the literature on mass incarceration, drug treatment, and social inequality. McKim provides crucial insight into these realms through her spectacular and engaging research."--Jill McCorkel "author of Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment"
Allison McKim is an assistant professor of sociology at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York.
