| Abstrakt: |
Scholars interested in the medicalization of deviance tend to draw a clear line between major institutions of social control – namely law, religion, and medicine – and describe a process whereby medicine becomes more dominant than other institutions in terms of defining and controlling problematic behavior (Friedson [1970]1988). This is not surprising, as the study of the medicalization of deviance has been primarily about a shift in both the definition and the locus of control of a problem from one institutional domain into another (Conrad 1975; Conrad and Schneider [1980]1992). However, some forms of deviant behavior cross-cut institutional arenas and the medicalization of these problems happen concurrently with other institutional controls, such as increased criminalization of mental illness, or the reverse, increased medicalization of criminal behavior (Hiday 1999). Instead of nudging aside law and religion in favor of medicine, these cases demonstrate the layering of institutional control and the increasing multi-institutional management of social problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
