Kerwin Kaye is associate professor of sociology, American studies, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University.
Kerwin Kaye examines how American institutions that govern illegal drug use, especially drug courts and treatment programs, define and treat 'addiction.' This book offers new findings that show how efforts at drug control regulate citizenship and reflect racial and gender politics, ultimately revealing the intimate character of neoliberal state governance. -- Allison McKim, author of <i>Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration</i> Kerwin Kaye not only explodes the neoliberal mythology of the beneficence of drug courts and other diversion schemes, but lays bare their continuing coercive and even brutalizing potential. Supporters and skeptics of drug courts alike will find much to consider in this forceful ethnography. And all of us who are interested in envisioning a post-War on Drugs United States should consider seriously Dr. Kaye's suggestions. -- Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., author of <i>Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation</i>