Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781978832053 |
| ISBN10: | 1978832052 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 306 pages |
| Size: | 203x127x23 mm |
| Weight: | 50 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 20 B-W images |
| 662 |
Category:
Criminalized Lives
HIV and Legal Violence
Series:
Q+ Public;
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date of Publication: 14 June 2024
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Short description:
Criminalized Lives profiles people charged in Canada with the crime of not disclosing their HIV-positive status to sex partners. Examining how criminalization disproportionately punishes poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada, Alexander McClelland investigates the consequences of criminalizing illness, which results in people being subjected to state violence rather than treated with care.
Criminalized Lives profiles people charged in Canada with the crime of not disclosing their HIV-positive status to sex partners. Examining how criminalization disproportionately punishes poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada, Alexander McClelland investigates the consequences of criminalizing illness, which results in people being subjected to state violence rather than treated with care.
Long description:
Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one?s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has disproportionately harmed the poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada. In this book, people who have been criminally accused of not disclosing their HIV-positive status, detail the many complexities of disclosure, and the violence that results from being criminalized.
Accompanied by portraits from artist Eric Kostiuk Williams, the profiles examine whether the criminal legal system is really prepared to handle the nuances and ethical dilemmas faced everyday by people living with HIV. By offering personal stories of people who have faced criminalization first-hand, Alexander McClelland questions common assumptions about HIV, the role of punishment, and the violence that results from the criminal legal system?s legacy of categorizing people as either victims or perpetrators.
Note: A regrettable error appears on page 22. The number 240 should be 206 when referring to the number of people prosecuted in relation to allegations of HIV nondisclosure. This will be fixed in future reprints.
? HIV Justice Network
Accompanied by portraits from artist Eric Kostiuk Williams, the profiles examine whether the criminal legal system is really prepared to handle the nuances and ethical dilemmas faced everyday by people living with HIV. By offering personal stories of people who have faced criminalization first-hand, Alexander McClelland questions common assumptions about HIV, the role of punishment, and the violence that results from the criminal legal system?s legacy of categorizing people as either victims or perpetrators.
Note: A regrettable error appears on page 22. The number 240 should be 206 when referring to the number of people prosecuted in relation to allegations of HIV nondisclosure. This will be fixed in future reprints.
"Criminalized Lives is not merely a searing condemnation of how HIV laws ruin lives and remove people living with HIV from the 'public' in 'public health'; the book asks deep and urgent questions about how journalists, criminologists, and scholars are complicit in making vulnerable people?s lives become mediated by violence."? Steven W. Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
"Weaving firsthand accounts and meaningful research, McClelland goes beyond state laws and click-bait headlines to underscore the human impact of criminalization."? POZ
"Criminalized Lives is a clearly written account of the impacts of HIV criminalization in Canada, the reasons it should end, and the work happening to end it. The book exposes how public health frameworks are used to implement state violence on targeted populations and makes a convincing case against limited reforms that carve out some populations for reduced criminalization while leaving others in the crosshairs of police and courts. It is a wonderful contribution to conversations about criminalization, health, HIV, and racial and gender justice."
? Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)"Eye-opening. . . . An unforgettable chronicle."? Literary Review of Canada
"Powerful and important. . . . The book's moving interviews illustrate that criminal legal systems are unprepared to handle the nuances and ethical dilemmas faced everyday by people living with HIV."
? HIV Justice Network
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms
Series Introduction by E. G. Crichton
Preface
Foreword by Robert Suttle
Chapter 1: Bearing Witness to Violence
Chapter 2: The Making of a Case
Chapter 3: Institutions & Information
Chapter 4: A Typology of Violence
Chapter 5: Testimony
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Notes
Index
List of Acronyms
Series Introduction by E. G. Crichton
Preface
Foreword by Robert Suttle
Chapter 1: Bearing Witness to Violence
Chapter 2: The Making of a Case
Chapter 3: Institutions & Information
Chapter 4: A Typology of Violence
Chapter 5: Testimony
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Notes
Index