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

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

Jennifer Murphy

244 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction health sociology emotional informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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