RT Article
T1 Controlling Drug Users: Forms of Power and Behavioural Regulation in Drug Treatment Services
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 2
SP 403
OP 421
A1 Bacon, Matthew
A1 Seddon, Toby 1970-
A2 Seddon, Toby 1970-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1692884603
AB This article examines the control practices used in drug treatment services to regulate the behaviour of people with drug problems. Drawing on an extensive qualitative study, we developed a conceptual framework, integrating the notion of responsive regulation with Wrong's sociology of power. The picture that emerges is of a complex ‘web of controls', combining diverse forms of power and control techniques, used to steer action and shape behavioural outcomes. It is argued that we can understand these control practices within drug treatment as part of broader strategies for the social regulation of the poor, built on deep-rooted hybrids of punishment and welfare. The article concludes with the suggestion that drug treatment represents an important site for understanding penal power today.
K1 Drug treatment
K1 Drug users
K1 Behavioural regulation
K1 Control
K1 Power
K1 Penal welfarism
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz055