Chemical Castration: How a Medical Therapy Became Punishment and the Bioethical Imperative to Return to a Rehabilitative Model for Sex Offenders
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- abstract
- Chemical castration is a colloquial term used to refer to the treatment of certain sex offenders with antiandrogenic drugs in order to reduce recidivism. The use of this treatment began in the United States in 1966, at which time the nation favored a rehabilitative approach to criminal justice. In its first thirty years of use, chemical castration proved effective at reducing recidivism rates among one subset of offenders, paraphiliacs, by about fifty percent.
- subject
- Bioethics
- Chemical castration
- contributor
- Coughlin, Christine N (committee chair)
- King, Nancy M P (committee member)
- Iltis, Ana S (committee member)
- date
- 2013-01-09T09:35:13Z (accessioned)
- 2013-01-09T09:35:13Z (available)
- 2012 (issued)
- degree
- Bioethics (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/37658 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Chemical Castration: How a Medical Therapy Became Punishment and the Bioethical Imperative to Return to a Rehabilitative Model for Sex Offenders
- type
- Thesis