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It's Not Just the Troubled Teen Industry How Control and Cruelty Repeat in Residential Schools, Nursing Homes, Psychiatric Wards, Cults, and Modern Witch Hunts When cruelty hides behind care, every system becomes a stage for control. This book examines how abuse, coercion, and forced compliance continue to operate in institutions still protected by law or morality-long after society claimed such practices ended. Drawing on international human-rights law, criminal codes, and the psychological principles of power and control, it exposes how the same patterns reappear across settings once thought unrelated: The troubled teen industry, ""behavioral modification"" programs, and youth boot camps. Psychiatric wards and residential treatment centers using involuntary confinement or chemical restraint. Nursing homes and group homes where neglect and over-medication replace care. Religious and cultic institutions enforcing obedience through fear, exorcism, or isolation. Prisons, detention centers, and immigration facilities using solitary confinement or forced labor under legal exceptions. Educational and child-protection systems that reframe dissent as defiance and distress as disorder. Through analysis grounded in the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and related international statutes, the book reveals how these acts often meet the global definition of torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment-yet remain legal when framed as ""safety,"" ""therapy,"" or ""discipline."" Each chapter dissects the moral and legal mechanisms that allow systemic cruelty to persist: legal loopholes, psychiatric labeling, moral inversion, and institutional betrayal. Together they show how compliance becomes the most efficient form of control-and why reform requires naming what has been disguised as protection. For readers in law, psychology, human rights, social work, or lived-experience advocacy, this book documents the uncomfortable truth: The same patterns once used on prisoners of war now appear in hospitals, schools, and homes for the vulnerable-still justified as help.

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