Criminalize mental deviancy, as defined and adjudicated by some state-employed panel of "experts"?
You're really on the fence about the cost/benefit of this one?
You're really on the fence about the cost/benefit of this one?
Thing is we already do this. The only step that would be novel would be allowing new inputs into the system.
We already institutionalize millions of people with mental disorders. When there's no focus on mental disorders and treatment that's where prisons come in, when there is a focus on mental disorder and treatment then mental hospitals come into the picture.
The sorting already happens. The differences would be in where do we begin intake, and where do we place people.