ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Payphone, Shoplifting, Medicalization
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Talk about what are these different appraoches to the edgewater homeless, and what have we learnt to the people we"ve gotten to know. I believe that with strong determination and willpower, i could get clean one hundre percent. I think i could do it in twenty-one days. And we know this is the most difficult way to healing: and if he doesn"t manage, it will be his fault. A lot of the programs that are already available (not many) are already quite punitive. It looks like criminalization is the opposite of medicalization: on hand you treat them as patients, on the other hand you treat them as criminals. A lot of the medical possibilies offered to the homeless are punitive. It is interesting to choose that time (the morning) A judge mandated that ben go to a treatment program instead of prison" ben however is unable to find a program that will accept him.
