Illness or Deviance?: Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, and the Ambiguity of Addiction

by Jennifer Murphy

Book Overview

Is drug addiction a disease that can be treated, or is it a crime that should be punished? In her probing study, Illness or Deviance?, Jennifer Murphy investigates the various perspectives on addiction, and how society has myriad ways of handling it-incarcerating some drug users while putting others in treatment.

Illness or Deviance? highlights the confusion and contradictions about labeling addiction. Murphy's fieldwork in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439910235
• ISBN13: 9781439910238
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"