The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend
What is recidivism?
These are the two teams that appear at every drug treatment court
What are legal actors and a treatment team?
What is constructed as a genderless addict with a disease of addiction?
Individualistic universal subject
The movement that prohibited drug use, production, and distribution
What is the War on Drugs?
Specialized courts set up to address the connection between drug addiction and crime
What are Drug Treatment Courts?
Drug treatment courts take place at this level of government
What are provincial court houses?
A subject who requires therapeutic interventions and who displays gratitude and a positive attitude?
What is a treatable subject
An initiative that encouraged racialized, marginalized, poor, drug using women to halt their reproductive ability for a payment of $200
What is Project Prevention?
The goal is to assist the user as much as possible both to alter substance use behaviours and also to improve well-being
What is the goal of therapists?
The reason why criminalization of addiction is problematic
What is a decreased access to voluntary treatment programs?
A universal subject creates implications for this population due to gender specific treatment
What are women?
Program that is widely recognized as intervention for treating opioid dependence, reduces heroin/other drug use, reduce HIV rates, reduce crime, and reduce likelihood of fatal overdose
What is Methadone Maintenance Treatment?
An approach that refocuses judges and court actors away from adversarial proceedings and traditional goals to a more humanistic, team work approach that maximizes therapeutic outcomes
What is therapeutic jurisprudence?
These are the common criticisms for drug treatment courts
What are frequent court appearances, urinalysis, multiple bail conditions, delayed sentencing
The addicted subject is constructed as
What is treatable and punishable?
The states intervention to prevent non autonomous individuals from inflicting harm upon themselves
What is Legal Paternalism