Docile Bodies? Chemical Restraints and the Female Inmate

We can influence others in two radically different ways--with the sword or the pen, the stick or the carrot. Coercion is the threat or use of force to compel another's submission. If it is legally authorized, we call it "law enforcement"; if it is not, we call it `crime.' Shunning coercion, we can employ verbal, sexual, financial and other enticements to secure the other's cooperation. We call these modes of influence by a variety of names, such as advertising persuasion, psychotherapy, treatment, brainwashing, seduction, payment for services, and so forth.