From witches to crack moms : women, drug law, and policy / Susan C. Boyd, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
2015
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From witches to crack moms : women, drug law, and policy / Susan C. Boyd, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015]
Call Number
HV5824.W6 B686 2015
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781611636260 (alk. paper)
1611636264 (alk. paper)
1611636264 (alk. paper)
Description
xviii, 394 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)891427804
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-381) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Szladits Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Szladits Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction
3
Myths and Ideologies
7
A Feminist Sociological Perspective
11
Social Control
13
Social Construction and Feminist Research
15
Sexuality, the Family, and Mothering
18
ch. 1
Women and Illegal and Legal Drugs
23
Drugs: What Are They?
24
A Brief History of Drug Regulation and Women
25
Witch Hunts
26
The Gin Craze
28
Colonization and the Regulation of Altered States of Consciousness
29
The Regulation of Coca
33
Western Drug Use: Women's Use of Opiate Remedies
34
Cannabis and Cocaine Use
36
Women's Drug Use: A Personal Matter
37
Temperance Ideology
38
Ideological Overlap Between the Anti-Opiate and Prohibition Movements
39
Contemporary Drug Regulation
40
Drug Regulation since the 1950s
43
Legal Drugs: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Prescribed Drugs
49
Tobacco
49
Alcohol
52
Prescribed Drugs
54
Feminist Research
56
SSRI Prescribing and the Disciplinary Society
58
The Legal/Illegal Divide
59
Advertising and Profit
63
Resistance
64
Contemporary Drug Use Rates
65
Canadian Drug Trends
68
British Drug Trends
68
The Diversity of Drug Use
69
ch. 2
The Medical, Legal, and Moral Regulation of Women
73
The Regulation of Reproduction
73
Medicalization
75
A Social Model of Health
77
Fetal Rights
79
Pregnancy and Drugs
80
Maternal Drug Use and Infant Doping: A Historical Perspective
81
Identifying Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs and Drug Testing
84
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
87
Cocaine and Pregnancy
88
Narcotics and Pregnancy
89
Tobacco and Pregnancy
90
Alcohol Use and Pregnancy
90
Marijuana and Cultural Factors
96
Risk Categories
99
The Criminalization of Pregnancy: Maternal-State Conflicts
100
Civil Child Welfare Law
105
Nongovernment Initiatives and the Media
112
Alternative Maternity Services
113
Glasgow
114
Liverpool
115
Manchester
116
Vancouver, Canada
117
Resistance in the U.S.
120
Conclusion
121
ch. 3
The Welfare Regulation of Women
123
Welfare Regulation
123
Fitness to Parent
125
Welfare Reform in the U.S.
128
Women Regulating Women
130
Women, Welfare, and Illegal Drugs in the U.S.
131
Section 15
133
HUD Housing
135
Welfare in Canada
137
Sunny Hill Hospital
143
Apprehension of the Fetus
145
Welfare and Illegal Drug Use in Britain
146
Conclusion
148
ch. 4
A Sociological Perspective of Drug Use, Addiction and Treatment
151
Historical Background
152
Alternative Views
156
Addiction and Negative Drug Use
159
Feminism and Drug Treatment
164
Women's Experience of Treatment in North America
166
Treatment Goals
168
The Drug Treatment Industry and Diversity
170
Harm Reduction
171
Alternative-Treatment Options
178
Housing and Harm Reduction
185
Drug Courts
186
History of the Drug Courts
186
Cost Effectiveness of Drug Courts
188
Gender and Cultural Factors
189
Widening the Net of Social Control
193
Drug Courts in Canada
195
Dedicated Drug Courts in Britain
201
Voluntary-Treatment Options
204
Conclusion
208
ch. 5
Women in Conflict with the Law
211
Arrest Rates and Imprisonment of Women in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.
212
Women in Britain
212
Women in Canada
215
Women in the U.S.
217
Conflict with the Law
221
Women, Sex Work, and Drug Dealing
221
Racial Profiling
227
Gendered Drug Law in the U.S., Britain, and Canada
228
Drug Conspiracy and Drug Couriers
228
Plea Bargaining
232
Asset Seizures and the Impact on Women
233
Cannabis Drug War Activists
234
Prison and the Regulation of Women
236
The Emergence of the Prison
236
The War on Drugs and the Restructuring of Prisons
238
Search Teams
238
Drug Testing in Prison
239
Health Care and Legal Drugging
242
Drug Treatment
245
HIV and Prison
249
Methadone in Prison
251
Pregnancy and the Use of Restraints
253
Mothering
254
Tearing Apart the Family and Community, and Visiting Prisons
259
Release
262
Further Obstacles
264
The Prison Industry
266
Resistance
268
ch. 6
U.S. International Policy and the War in Colombia
271
U.S. and CIA Intervention and International Drug Policy
272
Narcoterrorism
277
United States Federal Drug Policy
280
The Civil War in Colombia
284
Plan Colombia
287
The Displacement of Indigenous Peoples
291
Women's Resistance to Violence in Colombia
295
Further Justification for Foreign Intervention
302
Victim Nation
305
ch. 7
The Road to Social Justice
309
Legalization
311
References
315
Index
383