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The Medicalization of Deviance

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Medicalization is the process by which conduct once treated as sin or crime is redefined as illness, moving it from punishment to treatment.

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Behaviors formerly answered with sanction are now answered with diagnosis.

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Medicalization changes who holds authority over the conduct, and that is a sociological result.