Enforced Therapy for Deviations from the “Norm”

I’m reading this excellent book called:

“The Right to Be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy”
by Nicholas N. Kittre

I was drawn to it in a pile because it had a front page blurb by Thomas Szasz who I had written about in a previous article.

I could literally pull hundreds of amazing quotes out of Mr. Kittrie’s book.
Even though it was written in the mid 70’s, most of the information is still actively relevant, and even more frightening is the fact that most of the rights-abusive situations he writes about and examines continue to this day, the horrifying legislations and state/police/and “therapeutic” practices he brings to light are, for the most part, still active 30 years later.

Where this book shines is in its constant confrontation with
“scope creep/function creep“, where a legislation ostensibly put in place “for society or the person’s benefit” is gradually broadened and its criteria widened so that a non criminal process can be used for lengthy  incarceration of  individuals without due process or recourse to legal mechanisms or representation for the incarcerated.

Whole chapters on juvenile process abuses, forced sterilization, and the culturally biased oppression of alternative lifestyles by “morality crime” legislation will shock and enrage you if you have any conscience left after a day of modern brainwashing.