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dc.contributor.authorWalker, S.
dc.contributor.authorLancaster, K.
dc.contributor.authorStoové, M.
dc.contributor.authorHiggs, Peter
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-29T12:25:54Z
dc.date.available2018-06-29T12:25:54Z
dc.date.created2018-06-29T12:08:40Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationWalker, S. and Lancaster, K. and Stoové, M. and Higgs, P. and Wilson, A. 2018. “I Lost Me Visits”: A Critical Examination of Prison Drug Policy and Its Effects on Connection to Family for Incarcerated Young Men With Histories of Injecting Drug Use. Contemporary Drug Problems.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68504
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0091450918777280
dc.description.abstract

© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. Utilizing Bacchi’s poststructuralist approach, “What’s the problem represented to be?,” we critically examine how the “problem” of drug use in prison is represented within a key initiative—the Identified Drug User program (IDUP)—of prison drug policy in one Australian jurisdiction. We use two data sources for our analysis: interview transcripts of recently incarcerated young men (aged 19–24) with histories of injecting drug use and selected prison drug policy and program documents. We examine how the “problem” of drug use in prison is problematized within the IDUP and question commonly accepted ways of thinking that underpin the program. We explore the discursive and subjectification effects of problem representations which produce young men as “rational” and “choosing” and, at the same time, as “untrustworthy” and “deserving of punishment.” We highlight how these effects have consequences for young men’s connections to family while incarcerated which can work against the very issues the IDUP is trying to address. We make two claims in particular: that the IDUP produces harmful effects for young men and their families and that the harmful effects produced are, paradoxically, those the IDUP aims to avoid. Our analysis offers insights into how drug use in prison could be thought about differently, including suggestions that might reduce at least some of its adverse effects.

dc.publisherFederal Legal Publications, Inc
dc.title“I Lost Me Visits”: A Critical Examination of Prison Drug Policy and Its Effects on Connection to Family for Incarcerated Young Men With Histories of Injecting Drug Use
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.issn0091-4509
dcterms.source.titleContemporary Drug Problems
curtin.departmentNational Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
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