Overview
- Develops key themes to help understand how harm reduction projects intersect with public problems
- Considers the findings and implications for an international audience
- Offers unique insights of the people who most closely interact with the project of harm reduction
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This book explores the lived experiences of people who interact with needle and syringe program services in Western Sydney, Australia, including participants and industry workers. It locates the research within the wider context of harm reduction and drug policies. It addresses the question "what do needle and syringe programs do?" and seeks to unpack the agency of human and non-human factors to consider the ‘more than human’ effects of these programmes. Alongside a critical materialist perspective used to interpret the empirical findings, the book demonstrates that needle and syringe programs create new possibilities for engaging with the world by changing the material conditions of illicit drug consumption. It draws on the conceptual contributions of post-humanist thinking from assemblage theory, actor-network theory, and cognate scholarship. Consideration is given to transferable findings and insights for international contexts. The book speaks to scholars andpostgraduate students in the areas such as sociology, criminology, social work, critical public health, cultural studies, and related fields.
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About the author
Ken Yates is a sociologist and criminologist at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is interested in the interrelations between deviance, criminality, health, harm reduction, drug use, and neoliberal capitalism. He has taught qualitative research methods and criminology to undergraduates, crime prevention perspectives to police and local government, and provided research assistance to non-government mental health and AOD service providers. Ken has published research concerning harm reduction services, trust, inter-agency collaboration in child and family services, qualitative methods in harm reduction, and attitudes to technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What Do Needle and Syringe Programs Do?
Book Subtitle: An Assemblic Account of Staff-Client Relationships at Needle Syringe Programs
Authors: Ken Yates
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45968-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45967-2Published: 21 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45970-2Due: 22 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45968-9Published: 20 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 170
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Crime and Society, Social Work and Community Development, Sociology, general, Criminological Theory, Crime Control and Security