{"product_id":"enforcing-freedom-9780231172882","title":"Enforcing Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. \u003ci\u003eEnforcing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEnforcing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration. -- Helena Hansen, author of \u003ci\u003eAddicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaye has written an important, insightful, and nuanced ethnographic study of urban drug courts and, more unusually, the privatized therapeutic communities upon which they rely to deliver drug treatment services. His unique examination of the arms-length relationship between these somewhat mysterious private treatment providers and the formal court system is revelatory and spot on. While he provides a highly critical analysis, Kaye also makes a number of thoughtful ‘real world’ policy recommendations that build on and flow from his findings, and that will appeal to judicial and treatment policymakers. -- Michael Jacobson, author of \u003ci\u003eDownsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerwin Kaye examines how American institutions that govern illegal drug use, especially drug courts and treatment programs, define and treat 'addiction.' This book offers new findings that show how efforts at drug control regulate citizenship and reflect racial and gender politics, ultimately revealing the intimate character of neoliberal state governance. -- Allison McKim, author of \u003ci\u003eAddicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaye not only explodes the neoliberal mythology of the beneficence of drug courts and other diversion schemes but also lays bare their continuing coercive and even brutalizing potential. Supporters and skeptics of drug courts alike will find much to consider in this forceful ethnography. And all of us who are interested in envisioning a post–War on Drugs United States should seriously consider Kaye’s suggestions. -- Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eInfectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers new and vital insights into our understanding of the insidious ways that the criminal justice system oppresses people who use drugs. * Filter Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnforcing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is so magnificent. Kaye’s years of research have paid off in a pioneering book whose intellectual gems make mining its tectonic depths more than worth the effort. Five stars. * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eKaye’s book is rich in theory and this may be off-putting to those looking for a more nuts and bolts discussion of drug courts or their role as an “evidence-based best practice,” but there is much for practitioners to learn from Kaye’s critical perspective. The book is also more appropriate for graduate students versus undergraduates. Overall, I consider \u003ci\u003eEnforcing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e essential for those doing serious sociological work on drug control policy or new models of social control. * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003eA passionate, well-articulated critique that offers a mix of theoretical exposition and ethnography-based critique. * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence\u003cbr\u003e2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat\u003cbr\u003e3.  Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative  Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon\u003cbr\u003e4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities\u003cbr\u003e5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle\u003cbr\u003e6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on Drugs\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400295850327,"sku":"9780231172882","price":83.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231172882.jpg?v=1730470311","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/enforcing-freedom-9780231172882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}