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Judging Addicts - Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System (Hardcover, New)
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Judging Addicts - Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System (Hardcover, New)
Series: Alternative Criminology
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The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3
million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use:
over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for
drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased
criminalization of drugs and the medicalization of addiction in the
U.S. by focusing on drug courts, where defendants are sent to drug
treatment instead of prison. Rebecca Tiger explores how advocates
of these courts make their case for what they call "enlightened
coercion," detailing how they use medical theories of addiction to
justify increased criminal justice oversight of defendants who,
through this process, are defined as both "sick" and "bad." Tiger
shows how these courts fuse punitive and therapeutic approaches to
drug use in the name of a "progressive" and "enlightened" approach
to addiction. She critiques the medicalization of drug users,
showing how the disease designation can complement, rather than
contradict, punitive approaches, demonstrating that these courts
are neither unprecedented nor unique, and that they contain great
potential to expand punitive control over drug users. Tiger argues
that the medicalization of addiction has done little to stem the
punishment of drug users because of a key conceptual overlap in the
medical and punitive approaches--that habitual drug use is a
problem that needs to be fixed through sobriety. Judging Addicts
presses policymakers to implement humane responses to persistent
substance use that remove its control entirely from the criminal
justice system and ultimately explores the nature of crime and
punishment in the U.S. today.
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