The Health Law Ethics
& Policy Workshop Series
presents
Dawn
Moore
Associate Professor
in the Departments of Law and Criminology, Criminal Justice,
Carleton University
IS drug
treatment courT juridogenic? harm, care
and judicial cures
Thursday, January 27, 2011
12:30 – 2:00
Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto
84 Queen’s Park, Falconer
Hall
Solarium (Room FA2)
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5
Everyone is welcome to attend, no
registration is required.
ABSTRACT
After almost 15 years of
operation, there has been very little critical exploration of drug treatment
courts (DTC) in Canada. The blend of
justice and therapy uniquely found in DTCs marks them as unique arenas in which
juridical powers can be directly recruited into practices of curing individuals
of their addictions. While many laud the
project of DTCs and their ultimate goal of reinventing justice to more
therapeutic and productive ends, there is also reason to pay closer, critical
attention to what happens in DTC. In
medicine the notion of iatrogensis suggests that initiatives designed to help
may also cause harm. In this seminar,
Prof. Moore argues for a consideration of the juridogenic potential of DTC or
the possibility that the structures and interventions which typify most
Canadian DTCs may also have harmful consequences for the same people they seek
to help. Her paper is based on six
years of research in four different Canadian DTCs.
BIOGRAPHY
Dawn Moore in an
Associate Professor in the Departments of Law and Criminology, Criminal Justice
at Carleton University. Moore’s work
focuses generally on questions of identity and governance with a particular
focus on the regulation of drug use.
Moore’s first book, Criminal Artefacts: Governing Drugs and Users
explores the rise of addiction treatment in the Canadian criminal justice
system. Most recently she is completing
a 3 year, SSHRC funded study of Canadian drug treatment courts which focuses on
the experiences of participants. Moore
is the author of two books and has published widely in periodicals including Theoretical
Criminology, Punishment and Society, Economy and Society, The
British Journal of Criminology, The International Journal of Drug Control
Policy and Social and Legal Studies.
She is both past and incumbent Managing Editor of the Canadian
Journal of Law and Society and serves on the executive of the Canadian Law
and Society Association.
A Light Lunch will be served.
For other upcoming Seminars please visit the Seminar webpage or contact m.casco@utoronto.ca
The
Health Law Ethics and Policy Workshop series brings local,
national, international scholars and policy makers as guest speakers to the
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto to stimulate discussion of
issues related to the intersection of law with health care and related ethical
and social issues. It is organized by the Faculty’s Health Law group and
sponsored by the CIHR Training Program in Health Law, Ethics and Policy.
The program funds graduate students in the unique multi-disciplinary field of
Health Law, Ethics and Policy based at four top universities in Canada.
For more information on the program, please visit our website at: www.healthlawtraining.ca
