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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.

Review the authors’ inductive theory as to why America is particularly amenable to medical strategies of social control and present your agreement or disagreement with their views.

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