From Witches to Crack Moms : Women, Drug Law, and Policy book

From Witches to Crack Moms : Women, Drug Law, and Policy by Susan C. Boyd

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Author: Susan C. Boyd
Number of Pages: 394 pages
Published Date: 03 Feb 2015
Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
Publication Country: none
Language: English
ISBN: 9781611636260
File size: 42 Mb
Download Link: From Witches to Crack Moms Women, Drug Law, and Policy
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In this second edition, Susan Boyd examines how the regulation of altered states of consciousness and women's bodies is not new. Like the witches of old, women suspected of using illegal drugs today are persecuted and punished. From Witches to Crack Moms offers a critique of drug law and policy and its impact on women in the United States and illuminates similarities and differences in Britain and Canada.Informed by a feminist sociological perspective, Boyd discusses how drug law and policy is racialized, class-biased, and gendered. She highlights how punitive drug laws inform and shape criminal justice, social service and medical policy and practice. Boyd also providesinsight into how the war on drugs and the regulation of reproduction intersect, culminating in a volatile mix.

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