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Counselling anomie: clashing governmentalities of HIV criminalisation and prevention.
- Source :
- Critical Public Health; Sep2015, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p427-440, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- HIV criminalisationis a term that describes the criminal prosecution of persons in instances of HIV transmission, exposure and so-called non-disclosure of their HIV serostatus. In the United States (US), there have been over 500 reported instances of HIV criminalisation. Over the past decade, several negative consequences of HIV criminalisation have been identified, including its capacity to increase stigma and social injustice. In addition, scholars have built an evidence base demonstrating that HIV criminalisation has the potential to undermine HIV prevention and that it is thus harmful to public health. This article contributes to that evidence base by (1) combining Foucaultian studies of ‘governmentality’ with the sociology of ‘anomie’ to theorise the larger implications of HIV criminalisation for the institution of public health, and (2) presenting interviews with public health service providers working in Tennessee, USA. This state is an important site for studying the public health implications of HIV criminalisation because, between 2008 and 2012, it was reported to have led all American jurisdictions in prosecutions of HIV-specific criminal offences. Concentrating on discussions of post-test counselling, this article argues that a major system-level effect of HIV criminalisation is the propagation of an anomic affective climate, which makes it difficult to establish norms of HIV prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- DIAGNOSIS of HIV infections
HIV prevention
HIV infections
AIDS laws
HIV infection epidemiology
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
COMMUNITY health services
COUNSELING
INTERVIEWING
LEGAL liability
MEDICAL personnel
MEDICAL screening
PUBLIC health
RESEARCH funding
QUALITATIVE research
DISCLOSURE
JUDGMENT sampling
THEMATIC analysis
DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09581596
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108303067
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2015.1046814