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Neither Villain nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers
Author(s): Tammy Anderson (Editor, Contributor), Elizabeth Ettore (Contributor), Christopher Mullins (Contributor), Ira Sommers (Contributor), Deborah Baskin (Contributor), Yasmina Katsulis (Contributor), Kim Blankenship (Contributor), Christine Saum (Contributor), Alison Gray (Contributor), Margaret Kelley (Contributor), Margaret Malloch (Contributor), Stephanie Hartwell (Contributor), Michele Tracy Berger (Contributor), Cate Greibel (Contributor), Phyllis Coontz (Contributor), Carol Tracy (Contributor)
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date: 22 Jan. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 0813542081
- ISBN-13: 9780813542089
Book Description
Essays explore a range of topics, including the many ways that women negotiate the illicit drug world, how former drug addicts manage the more intimate aspects of their lives as they try to achieve abstinence, how women tend to use intervention resources more positively than their male counterparts, and how society can improve its response to female substance abusers by moving away from social controls (such as the criminalization of prostitution) and rehabilitative programs that have been shown to fail women in the long term.
Advancing important new perspectives about the position of women in the drug world, this book is essential reading in courses on women and crime, feminist theory, and criminal justice.
