Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in China /
Cheng, Vincent Shing,
Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in China / Vincent Shing Cheng. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Tales of 'Heroes' and 'Saviours'; 3. Police and the 'Hooks'; 4. Initiation Ceremony in Drug Detention; 5. Prison Authority and the 'Inmate Elites'; 6. Post-discharge Reintegration and Surveillance; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: Basic Information of the Former Drug Detainees; Chinese Glossary; References; Index
Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party's promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that.
9888455648 9789888455645
Drug abuse--China.
Drug abuse and crime--China.
Drug addicts--Services for--China.
Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--China.
Drug abuse--China--Hong Kong.
Drug abuse and crime--China--Hong Kong.
Electronic Books.
HV5840 / .H976 2019
Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in China / Vincent Shing Cheng. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Tales of 'Heroes' and 'Saviours'; 3. Police and the 'Hooks'; 4. Initiation Ceremony in Drug Detention; 5. Prison Authority and the 'Inmate Elites'; 6. Post-discharge Reintegration and Surveillance; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: Basic Information of the Former Drug Detainees; Chinese Glossary; References; Index
Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party's promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that.
9888455648 9789888455645
Drug abuse--China.
Drug abuse and crime--China.
Drug addicts--Services for--China.
Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--China.
Drug abuse--China--Hong Kong.
Drug abuse and crime--China--Hong Kong.
Electronic Books.
HV5840 / .H976 2019