| Criminal Artefacts: Governing Drugs and Users Contributor(s): Moore, Dawn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774813865 ISBN-13: 9780774813860 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime |
| Dewey: 364.177 |
| LCCN: 2008360792 |
| Series: Law and Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Attitudes toward crime, criminals, and rehabilitation have shifted considerably, yet the idea that there is a causal link between drug addiction and crime prevails. As law reformers call for addiction treatment as a remedy to the failing war on drugs, it is also time to consider the serious implications of joining legal and therapeutic practices in an assumedly benevolent bid to cure the offender. Case studies from drug treatment courts and addiction treatment programs illustrate the tensions between law and psychology, treatment and punishment, and conflicting theories of addiction. By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices. |