coercion
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Alex V. Barnard, an assistant professor of sociology at New York University, is the author of “Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023
Coercion, whether explicit or implicit, undermines a person’s autonomy because it makes informed consent and the exercise of agency impossible.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Coercion can also smother the internal desire to change, which is known to be critical for long-term success.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2022
And so, Speaker Brand helped the government to invent new procedures, still in use today, to cut the debate short on the Coercion Bill for Ireland.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2017
Coercion, as obstacle to consent, 40; effect on voluntariness of acts, 52.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
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