Janet Weston is Research Fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

As Weston points out, sources are scarce on the doctors, judges, and rehabilitation staff involved in sentencing and treating offenders, and records are essentially nonexistent when it comes to the deviants themselves and, especially, their victims. As a result, the sources are largely bureaucratic in nature. However, the author is adept at interpreting them to show nuanced trends in the medico-legal definition of deviance. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals.

• 1. Introduction2. The ‘Curative Treatment of Crime’3. Normal and Abnormal4. Causes and Treatments5. Doctors in the Dock6. Who Could be Cured?7. Conclusion

Janet Weston is Research Fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

As Weston points out, sources are scarce on the doctors, judges, and rehabilitation staff involved in sentencing and treating offenders, and records are essentially nonexistent when it comes to the deviants themselves and, especially, their victims. As a result, the sources are largely bureaucratic in nature. However, the author is adept at interpreting them to show nuanced trends in the medico-legal definition of deviance. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals.

• 1. Introduction2. The ‘Curative Treatment of Crime’3. Normal and Abnormal4. Causes and Treatments5. Doctors in the Dock6. Who Could be Cured?7. Conclusion

Janet Weston is Research Fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

As Weston points out, sources are scarce on the doctors, judges, and rehabilitation staff involved in sentencing and treating offenders, and records are essentially nonexistent when it comes to the deviants themselves and, especially, their victims. As a result, the sources are largely bureaucratic in nature. However, the author is adept at interpreting them to show nuanced trends in the medico-legal definition of deviance. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals.

• 1. Introduction2. The ‘Curative Treatment of Crime’3. Normal and Abnormal4. Causes and Treatments5. Doctors in the Dock6. Who Could be Cured?7. Conclusion