ABSTRACT
The above quote provides a tantalising invitation to think differently about con-
duct disorder. To paraphrase Foucault, what would it mean to think of truths such
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analysis would paint a quite different picture of conduct disorder: rather than a
GH¿QLWLYHO\VFLHQWL¿FWUXWKLWFRXOGEHJUDVSHGDVVRPHWKLQJPDGHSRVVLEOHYLD certain discursively constituted practices.
