Framing and reframing drug ‘problems’ in prison spaces and populations

Abstract

Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including the author's name, the title of the work, publication details where relevant (place, publisher, date), pagination, and for theses or dissertations the awarding institution, the degree type awarded, and the date of the award.

A qualitative study exploring young offenders’ perspectives on alcohol and other drug health promotion

“…A ‘frame’ is more static, a state of knowing; helpful sign posts to help make sense of a phenomena [ 33 ]. Frames are often shared among social lines and population subgroups, they are widespread in a society, serving to draw boundaries around the acceptable and unacceptable, the included and the excluded [ 33 , 34 ]. Faming can occur at both individual (micro) and societal levels (meso or macro) and is a critical activity in the construction of social reality; shaping individual perspectives which have the potential to influence policy and practice [ 33 ].…”

“…Faming can occur at both individual (micro) and societal levels (meso or macro) and is a critical activity in the construction of social reality; shaping individual perspectives which have the potential to influence policy and practice [ 33 ]. It’s important to note that individuals are active agents who may have the capacity to manoeuvre and resist framing discourse, however, an individual’s capacity to do this will be determined by social, economic, and cultural opportunities [ 34 ]. Lived experience advocates and peer workers have an important place in framing drug discourse in our society.…”

‘Keeping a lid on it’: Exploring ‘problematisations’ of prescribed medication in prisons in the UK

“…It also helped those participants feel connected to a wider social group. Therefore, people who are imprisoned should not be framed as 'passive' recipients of these problem representations, but 'active' with some ability to shape and counteract them, which may generate feelings of empowerment (Duke and Kolind, 2020).…”

Gang Talk and Strategic Moralisations in Danish Drug Policy Discourses on Young and Recreational Drug Users

“…More specifically, we draw on Rein and Schön (1993), who argue that policy actors construct and make sense of problematic policy issues through a process of discursive framing defined as 'a way of selecting, organising, interpreting, and making sense of a complex reality to provide guideposts for knowing, analysing, persuading, and acting' (Rein & Schön 1993: 146). Within this framework, the complementary processes of naming and framing not only define what is problematic about an issue, but also suggest what course of action and policies would be appropriate to address the 'problem' (Duke & Kolind 2020). As Houborg, Søgaard and Mogensen (2020) argue, 'problematisations' of young people, youth culture and drugs have been, and remain, central to much drug policy and practice, but the way they are framed has differed over the years, in turn giving rise to different policies and interventions.…”