Kerwin Kaye is associate professor of sociology, American studies, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University.

• Acknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

In Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration.

Kerwin Kaye is associate professor of sociology, American studies, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University.

• Acknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

In Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration.

Kerwin Kaye is associate professor of sociology, American studies, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University.

• Acknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

In Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration.