TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheng,Vincent Shing
TI  - Hypocrisy: the tales and realities of drug detainees in China 
SN  - 9888455648
AV  - HV5840 .H976 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Hong Kong
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - China
KW  - Drug abuse and crime
KW  - Drug addicts
KW  - Services for
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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