Layering Control: Medicalization, Psychopathy, and the Increasing Multi-institutional Management of Social Problems

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 139-158

  Medina, Tait R ^a   McCranie, Ann ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Insanity Defense; Institutional Control; Psychopathic Trait; Social Control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932095442     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3_8     Document Type: Chapter

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