The Excluded, the Pretenders, and the Supporters: The Subjects Responsible for Criminal Justice

Based on two empirical studies about addiction treatment programs in the criminal justice system, this paper argues that responsibilization strategies create a paradox of bulimic exclusion and empowerment for individual subjects. By theorizing three different subjectivities emerging from our research sites (outcasts, performers, and true believers), this paper shows how subjects of intervention actively work to negotiate their own experiences of responsibilization.