"This important book brings to light the shameful history of torturous methods used on individuals with developmental disabilities. If animals or prisoners of war had been subjected to this torture, the perpetrators would have been charged with felony cruelty to animals or war crimes. I am hopeful that by exposing what has occurred at the Judge Rotenberg Center, this work will finally bring this sad chapter of our history to an end."
— Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures
"A history of the notorious Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts, and the fight to ban the use of electric shock treatment and other severe punishments on disabled children and adults. This is a historical case study that remains sadly relevant, as aversion therapies are still encouraged in many places."
— The Bookseller
“A history of the notorious Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts, and the fight to ban the use of electric shock treatment and other severe punishments on disabled children and adults… An incredibly well-documented book.”
— Masslive
"Nisbet provides important insights into the present-day use of aversive interventions and the ongoing struggle for disability justice. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.”
— Choice
“. . . . An in-depth, riveting, and devastating account of violent treatments known as aversives, used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Nisbet’s painstakingly detailed history insists that we must not look away—as too many have done—from these horrific stories.”
— Isis