Book review: Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities and the Intimacies of the State by Kerwin Kaye

Ford, Alessandro (2020) Book review: Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities and the Intimacies of the State by Kerwin Kaye. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (07 Jun 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities and the Intimacies of the State, Kerwin Kaye challenges the notion that drug courts are the more effective and humane judicial option to mass incarceration, showing how they uphold a structure of ‘stratified penalisation’ that is significantly intensifying the impact of the ‘war on drugs’ on the racialised poor. Capturing the stark realities [...]

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology K Law > KF United States Federal Law R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2020 14:42
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 02:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105514

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