“What’s it going to be then, eh?”
That is the opening line to Anthony Burgess’s 1962 tour de force, A Clockwork Orange, a story set in a dystopian future where crime had evolved into a juggernaut threatening the existence of ordered society. A medical panacea emerges in the novel in the form of voluntary alternative-sentencing behavior modification: The subject criminal is given an injection that makes him debilitatingly ill while being forced simultaneously to watch films depicting graphic violence.
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