Conflict and Complementarity
Medicalization, Criminalization, and the Question of Human Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2153393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Rafalovich (Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 868-881 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.2020.1734747 |
| OpenAlex | W3007204137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 43 |
The social processes of criminalization and medicalization share important similarities, often complementing each other. Beginning from an analysis of their differences with regard to human agency, this essay provides a preliminary conversation for understanding the historical and contemporary relationship between criminalization and medicalization in Western society. This analysis encompasses three major aims: (1) we establish the difference between criminalization and medicalization with respect to the question of human agency; (2) we examine key legal concepts that elucidate how medicalized approaches to the question of agency influence the direction of criminal adjudication; and (3) we illustrate the ways in which criminalization encounters significant challenges to its institutional practices and thereby appropriates medicalized forms of social control. We conclude by positing that criminalization and medicalization operate as a social control matrix. As the analysis of the relationship between medicalization and criminalization is necessary at the discursive and institutional levels, we utilize multiple theoretical concepts, drawing from the work of Anthony Giddens. Emile Durkheim, Slavoj Žižek, and Michel Foucault
Agency (philosophy · Criminalization · Criminology · Epistemology · Medicalization · Social science · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Mandated Supporting, Not Reporting
Diversion
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The Coloniality of drug prohibition
Is non-medical use normal? Normalisation, medicalisation and pharmaceutical consumption
Psychedelics and Desistance From Crime
Parallel Development
Medicalising the menace? The symbiotic convergence of medicine and law enforcement in the medicalisation of marijuana in Minnesota
Deinstitutionalization
Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
The Medicalization of Society
Discipline and Punish
Studies in ethnomethodology
Deviance and medicalization
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Risk Society
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
On the Division of Labor in Society
Medicalizing Obesity
Medicalization, Natural Childbirth and Birthing Experiences
Pain "Is" the Club
The Discovery of Hyperkinesis
The Problem of Expertise in Knowledge Societies
Psychiatric Hospital Capacity, Homelessness, and Crime and Arrest Rates
Emile Durkheim
A thousand plateaus
Recognizing medicalization and demedicalization
Screening for breast cancer
Reintegrative Shaming, Procedural Justice, and Recidivism
Madness and Civilization
Central Problems in Social Theory
Asylums
Structure and Agency and the Sticky Problem of Culture
The Social Construction of Non-Human Agency
The Micro-Politics of Trouble
Suspended Identity
The Conceptual History of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |