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Vaillancourt, Samantha Pandick 2013-01-09T09:35:13Z 2013-01-09T09:35:13Z 2012 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/37658 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. en Wake Forest University Bioethics Chemical castration Chemical Castration: How a Medical Therapy Became Punishment and the Bioethical Imperative to Return to a Rehabilitative Model for Sex Offenders Thesis Coughlin, Christine N King, Nancy M P Iltis, Ana S Bioethics open.access