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Title: | Negotiating the challenges of coerced treatment: An exploratory study of community-based service providers in Queensland, Australia | Contributor(s): | Thomas, Natalie (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1177/009145091304000406 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20491 | Abstract: | The use of legal pressure to convince drug users to access treatment has become a popular drug-policy strategy in Australian and international jurisdictions. Providing drug treatment in this context necessitates partnerships between criminal justice agencies and drug treatment and support agencies, including community-based agencies. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews, this article explores the issues that coerced treatment presents for communitybased service providers. We employ the analytics associated with Foucault's notion of governmentality to 'make sense' of our research findings. We argue that these service providers negotiate the challenges of working in a criminal justice context by treating their clients as 'informed choice-makers,' and by employing more liberal techniques of governance that rely on the possibility of freedom as well as the threat of constraint. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Contemporary Drug Problems, 40(4), p. 569-594 | Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 2163-1808 0091-4509 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440299 Criminology not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940408 Rehabilitation and Correctional Services 949999 Law, Politics and Community Services not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230408 Rehabilitation and correctional services | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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