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Social control revisited

Social Control: Informal, Legal and Medical

ISBN: 978-0-85724-345-4, eISBN: 978-0-85724-346-1

Publication date: 21 December 2010

Abstract

Back in 2005 lawyers for the Milwaukee school board decided to exclude Viagra and similar erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs from health coverage for the teachers’ union because, well, they were simply too expensive.1 And besides, so the school board explained, such drugs are used primarily for recreational sex and are not a medical necessity.

Citation

Chriss, J.J. (2010), "Social control revisited", Chriss, J.J. (Ed.) Social Control: Informal, Legal and Medical (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-6136(2010)0000015003

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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