LEADER 03223oam 22005052 450 001 9910793661203321 005 20190729113804.0 010 $a0-429-83477-2 010 $a0-429-83476-4 010 $a0-429-45079-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000008521909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5798082 035 $a(OCoLC)1090706828 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1090706828 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9780429450792 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008521909 100 $a20190321d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLaw, drugs and the making of addiction $ejust habits /$fKate Seear 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cRoutledge,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (182 pages) 311 $a1-138-32463-9 330 $aThis book considers how largely accepted legal truths' about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering. Lawyers play a vital and largely underappreciated role in constituting legal certainties about substances and addiction', including links between alcohol and other drugs, and phenomena such as family violence. Such practices exacerbate, sustain and stabilise addicted' realities, with a range of implications - many of them seemingly unjust - for people who use alcohol and other drugs. This book explores these issues, drawing upon data collected for a major international study on alcohol and other drugs in the law, including interviews with lawyers, magistrates and judges; analyses of case law; and legislation. Focussing on an array of legal practices, including processes of law-making, human rights deliberations, advocacy and negotiation strategies, and the sentencing of offenders, and buttressed by overarching analyses of the ethics and politics of such practices, the book looks at how alcohol and other drug addiction' emerges and is concretised through the everyday work lawyers and decision makers do. Foregrounding practices', the book also shows that law is more fragile than we might assume. It concludes by presenting a blueprint for how lawyers can rethink their advocacy practices in light of this fragility and the opportunities it presents for remaking law and the subjects and objects shaped by it. This ground-breaking book will be of interest not only to those studying and working within the field of alcohol and drug addiction but also to lawyers and judges practising in this area and to scholars in a range of disciplines, including law, science and technology studies, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies 606 $aDrugs of abuse$xLaw and legislation 606 $aDrug addiction$zCanada 606 $aDrug addiction$zAustralia 606 $aDrug addiction 606 $aNarcotic laws 615 0$aDrugs of abuse$xLaw and legislation. 615 0$aDrug addiction 615 0$aDrug addiction 615 0$aDrug addiction. 615 0$aNarcotic laws. 676 $a344.044 700 $aSeear$b Kate$01469959 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793661203321 996 $aLaw, drugs and the making of addiction$93681595 997 $aUNINA