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Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction - Just Habits (Paperback)
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Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction - Just Habits (Paperback)
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This book considers how largely accepted 'legal truths' about drugs
and addiction are made and sustained through practices of
lawyering. Lawyers play a vital and largely underappreciated role
in constituting legal certainties about substances and 'addiction',
including links between alcohol and other drugs, and phenomena such
as family violence. Such practices exacerbate, sustain and
stabilise 'addicted' realities, with a range of implications - many
of them seemingly unjust - for people who use alcohol and other
drugs. This book explores these issues, drawing upon data collected
for a major international study on alcohol and other drugs in the
law, including interviews with lawyers, magistrates and judges;
analyses of case law; and legislation. Focussing on an array of
legal practices, including processes of law-making, human rights
deliberations, advocacy and negotiation strategies, and the
sentencing of offenders, and buttressed by overarching analyses of
the ethics and politics of such practices, the book looks at how
alcohol and other drug 'addiction' emerges and is concretised
through the everyday work lawyers and decision makers do.
Foregrounding 'practices', the book also shows that law is more
fragile than we might assume. It concludes by presenting a
blueprint for how lawyers can rethink their advocacy practices in
light of this fragility and the opportunities it presents for
remaking law and the subjects and objects shaped by it. This
ground-breaking book will be of interest not only to those studying
and working within the field of alcohol and drug addiction but also
to lawyers and judges practising in this area and to scholars in a
range of disciplines, including law, science and technology
studies, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies
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