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Garriott, William Campbell, III.

A body on drugs: Methamphetamine and the making of a new criminal type in the rural United States.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A body on drugs: Methamphetamine and the making of a new criminal type in the rural United States.
Author:	Garriott, William Campbell, III.
Description:	278 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Joao Biehl.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-10, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-10A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3333849
ISBN:	9780549863083

A body on drugs: Methamphetamine and the making of a new criminal type in the rural United States.
Garriott, William Campbell, III.

A body on drugs: Methamphetamine and the making of a new criminal type in the rural United States. - 278 p.

Adviser: Joao Biehl.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2008.

In this dissertation I examine the new criminal type that has emerged in the rural United States in the wake of the methamphetamine problem. I focus particularly on how concern over this figure, as the symbolic embodiment of the methamphetamine problem itself, has created new social relationships in which law occupies a prominent though precarious place. Specifically, I examine: how attempts to raise awareness about the epidemiological signs of meth production and use have created new obligations for citizens to police the epidemic; how scientific understandings of addiction circulate in the criminal justice system to the degree that "the addict" now constitutes a discrete criminal type; how administrators of key institutions have increasingly incorporated drug detection into their everyday administrative duties as a way to address methamphetamine; and how law has been used to arrest, prosecute and punish meth offenders, and the consequences this has had on their lives. Proceeding in this way, I show the more subtle impact of the methamphetamine problem on rural communities, and offer a glimpse into the legal culture that is taking shape more generally in the United States in the context of the War on Drugs.

ISBN: 9780549863083Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

A body on drugs: Methamphetamine and the making of a new criminal type in the rural United States.
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