Sweden's Christian Democrats have called for tougher sentences for sex offenders and making release conditional on chemical castration. (thelocal.se)
The Swedish Christian Democrats (KD) leader has called for the chemical castration of certain sex offenders as part of plans for a tougher grip on sexual crime and punishment in Sweden. (thelocal.se)
The controversial chemical castration proposal was the headline grabbing soundbite in a broader set of proposals to recalibrate the structure of Sweden's sexual crime sentencing. (thelocal.se)
Chemical castration, she suggested, should be implemented as a condition of release for some sexual offenders. (thelocal.se)
It may mean that if a person like Nytorgsmannen is to be able to become a free man, a chemical castration must have taken place before the release," Busch said, referring to Andreas Holm, a man sentenced in 2021 for 35 different crimes including 24 rapes. (thelocal.se)
But this is not the first time the Christian Democrats have toyed with the idea of chemical castration as a form of legal punishment. (thelocal.se)
As far back as 20 years ago, under former leader Alf Svensson, the right-wing party raised the idea of conditional chemical castration of rapists and pedophiles. (thelocal.se)
Chemical castration, the process of preventing sex hormone production through chemicals, can reduce sexual libido but the effects on those with deviant behaviours are relatively unknown. (thelocal.se)
Chemical castration can also prove costly as it is not a one-off treatment but rather requires regular interventions, which means the police would be reliant on those sentences to chemical castration making regular trips to the authorities for further treatment. (thelocal.se)
Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül also said on Feb. 20 that legal steps were being taken against the increase in child abuse, and the government was considering introducing chemical castration for child sex offenders, by putting in place the relevant regulations in a couple of days. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
What was worse, however, was the Geiers' "solution" to this problem, which was to add to the autism quackery known as chelation therapy another potentially harmful form of quackery, namely chemical castration using Lupron, a drug that shuts down the production of sex hormones, including testosterone. (scienceblogs.com)
We present a qualitative analysis, employing semi-structured interviews and grounded theory, on the perceptions of defense attorneys regarding their roles and duties in contexts involving quasi-coercive offers of biological interventions, such as medication-assisted treatment therapies for opiate dependence or chemical castration, as rehabilitative strategies in sentencing. (indigentdefenseresearch.org)
Depo-Provera also happens to be a drug of choice for the "chemical castration" of male sex offenders. (nomorefakenews.com)
Child sex1
101 Some studies of pedophilia in child sex offenders have correlated it with various neurological abnormalities and psychological pathologies. (wikipedia.org)
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It is no accident that 95% of convicted sexual offenders are males, all of whom have testosterone secreting testicles. (gender.org.uk)
In 1959, a group of sexual offenders from Norway agreed to be castrated in exchange for reduced prison sentences. (boost-your-low-testosterone.com)
Pedophiles1
Researchers recommend that these imprecise uses be avoided, because although some people who commit child sexual abuse are pedophiles, child sexual abuse offenders are not pedophiles unless they have a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children, and many pedophiles do not molest children. (wikipedia.org)
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Not coincidentally, it's also used to chemically castrate sex offenders. (scienceblogs.com)
Castrate1
The son subsequently demonstrates castration anxiety , fearing that his father might castrate him for his incestuous feelings towards his mother, and so represses his feelings and identifies with his father. (psychology.net.in)
It's a drug that's used to treat metastatic prostate cancer, a treatment that replaced the old treatment for metastatic prostate cancer, namely surgical castration. (scienceblogs.com)
Conference1
Last year, in fact, I was mightily torn: my Rollback was up for the Hugo to be presented at the Worldcon in Denver - but the same weekend a conference about Jaynes's work was being held on Prince Edward Island, where he summered. (scalzi.com)
Government3
One in eight New Yorkers is on welfare and one in six works for some level of government. (amren.com)
The aim of the commission is to review all current measures regarding the issue of our children's protection, to work on what more can be done from now on to achieve a more effective protection, and to submit a report to the government on what should be done legally and administratively," Bozdağ said. (hurriyetdailynews.com)