An edition of Crack mothers (1999)

Crack mothers

pregnancy, drugs, and the media

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An edition of Crack mothers (1999)

Crack mothers

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In Crack Mothers, Drew Humphries asserts that medicine and criminal justice have always been at odds on the subject of drug use. One treats drug users as patients, the other as criminals. However, beginning in the late 1980s, the "crack mother" scare led to an unprecedented alliance between doctors and prosecutors in same states, where doctors turned addicted pregnant women over to the police for arrest, trial, and incarceration.

Humphries analyzes the public reaction to crack cocaine and the policies instituted to combat it. She shows us that more often than not, policies were generated by the fears that crack mothers were harbingers of even more serious social problems. The media's construction of the crack mother as a model of depravity is, she argues, a reflection of mainstream desires and fears, not a reflection of the truth.

Humphries offers a more balanced view of the women who use crack and the policies that have been adopted to stop them.

In Crack Mothers, Drew Humphries asserts that medicine and criminal justice have always been at odds on the subject of drug use. One treats drug users as patients, the other as criminals. However, beginning in the late 1980s, the "crack mother" scare led to an unprecedented alliance between doctors and prosecutors in same states, where doctors turned addicted pregnant women over to the police for arrest, trial, and incarceration. Humphries analyzes the public reaction to crack cocaine and the policies instituted to combat it. She shows us that more often than not, policies were generated by the fears that crack mothers were harbingers of even more serious social problems. The media's construction of the crack mother as a model of depravity is, she argues, a reflection of mainstream desires and fears, not a reflection of the truth. Humphries offers a more balanced view of the women who use crack and the policies that have been adopted to stop them.

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English
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206

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Crack mothers: pregnancy, drugs, and the media
1999, Ohio State University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-199) and index.

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Columbus
Series
Women and health, Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.29/8/0852
Library of Congress
HV5824.W6 H86 1999

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Pagination
xi, 206 p. :
Number of pages
206

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL384112M
ISBN 10
0814208169
LCCN
98046648
Library Thing
5479609
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1793292

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