All Posts Tagged With: "criminal justice system"
Psychiatry: A Branch of the Law
Medicine and law are independent but intimately interacting social institutions. Medicine guards its autonomy jealously and relates to the legal system as an equal partner. Psychiatry, in contrast, submits slavishly to being dominated by the law and obediently meets its demands. Herewith are some examples. On July 3, 2006, Orin Guidry, M.D., president of the [...]
1Dec2006 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedAlways Think of Incentives
While visiting FEE a few years ago, I was lucky enough to hear a talk by the “armchair economist,” Professor Steven Landsburg. In it he remarked that most of economics could be summarized in just two sentences: “Resources are scarce” and “People respond to incentives.” These two apparently simple and obvious observations are in fact [...]
1Oct2006 | Stephen Davies | 2 comments | ContinuedIdiots, Infants and the Insane: Mental Illness and Legal Incompetence
In principle, mental patents are considered competent, free to accept or refuse treatment. In practice, they are often treated as if they were incompetent, forced to submit to treatment in their own best interest. This conflation of mental illness and legal incompetence—and the concomitant transformation of the mental patient in the community into the (potential [...]
1Jul2005 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | Continued-
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