Policing addiction in a new era of therapeutic jurisprudence -- Drug court paternalism and the management of threat -- Today is the first day of the rest of your life : rehabilitative practice within therapeutic communities and the history of Synanon -- Control and agency in contemporary therapeutic communities -- Gender, sexuality and the drugs lifestyle -- Retrenchment and reform in the war on drugs
Summary
Kerwin 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. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward
