Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (882 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081358762X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"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."
After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. 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. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class. . 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. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment