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Law, drugs and the making of addiction : just habits / / Kate Seear



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Autore: Seear Kate Visualizza persona
Titolo: Law, drugs and the making of addiction : just habits / / Kate Seear Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 pages)
Disciplina: 344.044
Soggetto topico: Drugs of abuse - Law and legislation
Drug addiction - Canada
Drug addiction - Australia
Drug addiction
Narcotic laws
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: Law, drugs and the making of addiction  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-429-83477-2
0-429-83476-4
0-429-45079-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910793661203321
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