Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State Format:Hardcover Romantic Times 06/01/2010 pg

Romantic Times 06/01/2010 pg

Author: Jane O'Connor

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ISBN-13: 9780061689895

Pages: 182

Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State Format:Hardcover Romantic Times 06/01/2010 pgIn 1989, the first drug treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom 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. Situating drug