Apart from any particular form of deviance, the process of medicalization is a key portion of this course. For this essay do the following:
Present the basic points of medicalization (the movement from punishment to rehabilitation; the growing authority of the medical profession; moral neutrality).
Review the “bright” and the “dark” sides of the social consequences of medicalization (Chapter 9) and establish a personal position on medicalization in terms of the control of crime and deviance.
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