Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions

This study examined the lived experience of drug use, incarceration and release from prison for 28 young men with histories of injecting drugs. Bacchi’s WPR approach and Rhodes’ Risk Environment framework helped frame results. Findings revealed how criminal justice policies and practices purporting...

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Main Author: Walker, Shelley Joy
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79713
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description This study examined the lived experience of drug use, incarceration and release from prison for 28 young men with histories of injecting drugs. Bacchi’s WPR approach and Rhodes’ Risk Environment framework helped frame results. Findings revealed how criminal justice policies and practices purporting to address “problems” of crime and harmful drug use, in fact acted to produce these very “problems”, and in doing so, exacerbated other harms including further marginalisation of an already vulnerable group.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-797132022-06-22T04:08:26Z Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions Walker, Shelley Joy This study examined the lived experience of drug use, incarceration and release from prison for 28 young men with histories of injecting drugs. Bacchi’s WPR approach and Rhodes’ Risk Environment framework helped frame results. Findings revealed how criminal justice policies and practices purporting to address “problems” of crime and harmful drug use, in fact acted to produce these very “problems”, and in doing so, exacerbated other harms including further marginalisation of an already vulnerable group. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79713 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Walker, Shelley Joy
Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
title Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
title_full Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
title_fullStr Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
title_full_unstemmed Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
title_short Lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
title_sort lived experiences of incarceration and release for young men with histories of injecting drugs: challenging taken-for-granted assumptions
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79713