Medicalization of Social Control
Arvanites, Thomas M. 1992. "The Mental Heath and Criminal Justice Systems: Complementary
Forms of Coercive Control." Pp. 131-150 in Social Threat and Social Control, edited by
Allan Liska. Albany: SUNY Press.
Cartwright, S. 1851. "Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race." New
Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 8:691-715.
Conrad, Peter. 1975. "The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant
Behavior." Social Problems 23:12-21.
______. 1977. "Medicalization, Etiology and Hyperactivity: A Reply to Whalen and
Henker." Social Problems 24:596-98.
______. 1979. "Types of Medical Social Control." Sociology of Health and Illness 1:1-11
______. 1992. "Medicalization and Social Control." Annual Review of Sociology 18:209-
32.
Conrad, Peter and Joseph V. Schneider. 1980. Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to
Sickness. St. Louis: Mosby.
Kittrie, Nicholas N. 1971. The Right to be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Press.
Mercy, James A. and Patrick W. O’Carroll. 1988. "New Directions in Violence Prediction: The
Public Health Arena." Violence and Victims 3:285-301.
Miller, Kent S. 1980. The Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems: Conflict and Collusion.
Cambridge, Mass.:Oeleschlager, Gunn and Hain.
Ruttenberg, Hattie. 1994. "The Limited Promise of Public Health Methodologies to Prevent Youth
Violence." Yale Law Journal 103:1885-1912.
Zola, Irving K. 1972. "Medicine as an Institution of Social Control." Sociological Review 20:487-
504.