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A qualitative analysis of the impact of the opioid crisis on non-emergency frontline social service workers
Safer injection facilities (SIFs) for injection drug users (IDUs) in Canada. A review and call for an evidence-focused pilot trial
âMcJusticeâ: On the McDonaldization of Criminal Justice
This essay examines the McDonaldization of criminal justice or McJustice. In doing so, it provides another useful way of understanding the development and operation of criminal justice in the United States. The McDonaldization of various social institutions has succeeded because it provides advantages over other, usually older, methods of doing business. It has made McDonaldized social institutions bureaucratic and rational in a Weberian sense and, thus, more efficient, calculable, predictable, and controlling over people (often by nonhuman technologies). The principal problem with McDonaldized institutions, and another characteristic of the process, is irrationality or, as Ritzer calls it, the irrationality of rationality. A primary purpose of this essay is to expose some of the irrationalities of McJustice and to suggest some possible responses to them