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Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction - Just Habits (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,152
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Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction - Just Habits (Paperback): Kate Seear

Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction - Just Habits (Paperback)

Kate Seear

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2021
First published: 2020
Authors: Kate Seear
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-72714-7
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General
Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Addiction & therapy
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
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LSN: 0-367-72714-5
Barcode: 9780367727147

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