Neither villain nor victim empowerment and agency among women substance abusers / [electronic resource] : edited by Tammy L. Anderson. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008. - xv, 226 p. ; 23 cm. - Critical issues in crime and society . - Critical issues in crime and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dimensions of women's power in the illicit drug economy / Tammy L. Anderson -- Seeing women, power, and drugs through the lens of embodiment / Elizabeth Ettorre -- Demonstrating a female-specific agency and empowerment in drug selling / R. Baskin and Ira Sommers -- Negotiating the streets : women, power, and resistance in street-life social networks / Christopher W. Mullins -- Women's agency in the context of drug use / Yasmina Katsulis and Kim M. Blankenship -- Facilitating change for women? : exploring the role of therapeutic jurisprudence in drug court / Christine A. Saum and Allison R. Gray -- Negotiating gender for couples in methadone maintenance treatment / Margaret Kelley -- A spoonful of sugar? : treating women in prison / Margaret S. Malloch -- More of a danger to myself : community reentry of dually diagnosed females involved with the criminal justice system / Stephanie W. Hartwell -- "Hustling" to save women's lives : empowerment strategies of recovering HIV-positive women / Michelle Tracy Berger -- Drug use, prostitution, and globalization : a modest proposal for rethinking policy / Phyllis Coontz and Cate Greibel.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Women drug addicts.
Female offenders--Drug use.
Women prisoners--Drug use.
Female offenders--Rehabilitation.
Women prisoners--Rehabilitation.
Drug abuse--Prevention.
Drug abuse--Treatment.


Electronic books.

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