ABSTRACT
The increasing emphasis on the label of illness, then, has been at the expense of the labels of both crime and sin and has been narrowing the limits if not weakening the jurisdiction of the traditional control institutions of religion and law. Indeed, my own suspicion is that the jurisdiction of the other institutions has been weakened absolutely because the thrust of the expansion of the application of medical labels has been toward addressing (and controlling) the serious forms of deviance, leaving to the other institutions a residue of essentially trivial or narrowly technical offenses.
