Chemical castration

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    What it is according wikipedia:

    "Chemical castration is the administration of medication designed to reduce libido and sexual activity, usually in the hope of preventing rapist, child molesters and other sex offenders from repeating their crimes."

    It's already applied in some countries, also in some american states. In Brazil, some senators are trying to implant it due to the huge number of sexual crimes, a votation is going to happen, but most likely the proposal won't be approved.

    Do you think it works or is it just an avengeful idea?
     
    Throat said:
    What it is according wikipedia:

    "Chemical castration is the administration of medication designed to reduce libido and sexual activity, usually in the hope of preventing rapist, child molesters and other sex offenders from repeating their crimes."

    It's already applied in some countries, also in some american states. In Brazil, some senators are trying to implant it due to the huge number of sexual crimes, a votation is going to happen, but most likely the proposal won't be approved.

    Do you think it works or is it just an avengeful idea?
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    Interesting stuff. It probably does work if places are implementing it but you never know.
     
    The logic behind using it makes sense, but isn't that just kinda...cruel? Having a low sex drive and being borderline asexual myself, I really can't advocate either way for it but yeah... o_0
     
    Honestly, I think it's a great solution for keeping rapists and child molesters from committing sexual crimes.

    Now I don't think it should be legal for a judge to order you to undergo chemical castration, however I think this might be something that offenders can opt into in order to avoid a jail sentence.

    (This means once you're caught, and convicted you can elect to stay chemically castrated for the remainder of your life, or for a certain number of years, as determined by the severity of the sexual crime and judge. Additionally, you will need to submit to regular testing to ensure that you are complying with the chemical castration order which you opted in for in lieu of Jail time)
     
    Timbjerr said:
    The logic behind using it makes sense, but isn't that just kinda...cruel? Having a low sex drive and being borderline asexual myself, I really can't advocate either way for it but yeah... o_0
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    It's not definitive. Besides, it's not like someone would be "castrated" for nothing, only if you commit a sexual crime (which is usually quite cruel).

    Pachy said:
    Now I don't think it should be legal for a judge to order you to undergo chemical castration, however I think this might be something that offenders can opt into in order to avoid a jail sentence.
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    Exactly, the human body is inviolable (unless one allow it) and that's how the procedure would happen.
     
    Yes. In this way, these sexual offenders can still keep their lives without sitting and rotting in jail, becoming unproductive and jaded. They can choose to become chemically castrated, and live on...because we all know how bad the shame attached on such a crime can be, and it will certainly make life hard enough without jail time. (Especially if they made an honest mistake and let their sex drive shut down their reasoning once and if they truly regret committing the crime)
     
    I think it's an idea worth persuing, at least to see if it works, but why not simply physically castrate them? (Although, I understand it may be hard to find people willing to perform that action.) And this seems to go on the assumption that all sex offenders are male; as such I wouldn't mind some 'chemical spaying' either.

    There is one problem though: at least to start with it really won't do good for making the public feel safe.
     
    That is a good point. I think offenders who are a risk for running away, shouldn't have an option to get chemically castrated instead of going to jail.

    As for the public, all that needs to be done is to let the system in slowly. Maybe start out by incarcerating the offenders right off, and then maybe giving them the option to be chemically castrated if they behave well in jail. :P

    Then if it works and the trusted people they let out early with chemical castration don't commit the crime again...allow some people who regret the crime almost immediately to avoid the jail time by agreeing to chemical castration and a tracking device so that the police can track the person down if they run. :P
     
    Cassino said:
    There is one problem though: at least to start with it really won't do good for making the public feel safe.
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    It's like a simple choice: either you quit committing the crime and accept the castration or you'll be in jail for longer with heavier monitoration. I don't see a reason for someone feeling less safe for it. No one is going to be totally free after the chemical castration, surely if they don't learn how to live with, he'll be kept away from society.
     
    There's something about this that I don't like, but I don't know. It's probably flawed, like every other drug, but it seems to be for the better of everyone. Is it an expensive procedure? How long does it last? It's definitely a better idea than anti-rape condoms, that's for sure.
    I think house arrest and forced community service works well enough though, but this should be implemented if the Supreme Court decides that it isn't cruel and/or unusual punishment, considering it has a chance of being mandatory instead of being optional.
    Cassino said:
    I think it's an idea worth persuing, at least to see if it works, but why not simply physically castrate them?
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    People can be wrongly accused D:
     
    Is it a permanent effect or do they have too keep topping in the person up? Either way could raises issues.
     
    The effect isn't permanent. They have to go in every so often and get another shot to keep them chemically castrated. Fortunately the flight risk can be averted by forcing all chemically castrated offenders to wear a waterproof tracking device on their ankle.
     
    Throat said:
    It's like a simple choice: either you quit committing the crime and accept the castration or you'll be in jail for longer with heavier monitoration. I don't see a reason for someone feeling less safe for it. No one is going to be totally free after the chemical castration, surely if they don't learn how to live with, he'll be kept away from society.
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    The public on the whole are just like that — they like their traditional imprisonment ending for wrongdoers. Trying to re-integrate people into society not used to such measures just gets them —although perhaps needlessly— paranoid.
    What is it... something like, 90% of so polled Americans are happy for an 'ex-paedophile' to be re-integrated and housed somewhere, but not in their own local area. Even though they would obviously be monitored, unless a policeman is actually standing outside their door 24/7, it's not happening.

    Luck said:
    People can be wrongly accused D:
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    Ah, that makes sense...
     
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    I'd rather have meh tax money go into hundreds of dollars in drugs to avoid these kinds of people rather than thousands of dollars to maintain these kinds of people. You can't argue with that economic logic, can you?
     
    Call me cynical, but I think there is something worse going on inside a rapist that won't be castrated along with the libido. I think it takes a certain kind of deeply disturbed individual to do something like that, perhaps even more disturbed than some murderers are.
     
    Scarf said:
    Call me cynical, but I think there is something worse going on inside a rapist that won't be castrated along with the libido. I think it takes a certain kind of deeply disturbed individual to do something like that, perhaps even more disturbed than some murderers are.
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    Not entirely...most of them are just really horny older guys who need to find a form of release...

    My father is currently serving time for a sex crime, and he's been an incredible male role model for me and several neighborhood kids while I was growing up. He just had...and addiction that needed attention. It unfortunately got him in trouble and communicating with him these days, it's obvious that he deeply regrets his actions and the toll it's done on my mother, my brother, and myself.

    He's clearly not even remotely as emotionally disturbed as a murderer is. >_>
     
    Timbjerr said:
    Not entirely...most of them are just really horny older guys who need to find a form of release...

    My father is currently serving time for a sex crime, and he's been an incredible male role model for me and several neighborhood kids while I was growing up. He just had...and addiction that needed attention. It unfortunately got him in trouble and communicating with him these days, it's obvious that he deeply regrets his actions and the toll it's done on my mother, my brother, and myself.

    He's clearly not even remotely as emotionally disturbed as a murderer is. >_>
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    At least in the US, "sex criminal" and "rapist" are nowhere near synonymous. Going out nude is a "sex crime" and will land you on the "sex offender registry," which means you'll be lucky if you even get a job working at McDonalds ever again. I can't tell because you're being vague (understandably so), but the way I read it, I don't think your father did anything too wrong.
     
    I think if this was to be used it would have to be on a repeat offender, and rather than being INSTEAD of jail it should mean a shorter sentence.

    Getting a decreased sex drive is hardly a punishment for raping people.
     
    SwiftSign said:
    I think if this was to be used it would have to be on a repeat offender, and rather than being INSTEAD of jail it should mean a shorter sentence.

    Getting a decreased sex drive is hardly a punishment for raping people.
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    Actually, it should be used in the ones that has done it for the first time. Most people who does it has a sexual deviation (or even a sexual desire that couldn't manage to control). However, there're people who, even without libido, could be dangerous for society. As I said, the chemical castration could be an advantage for him himself, because if that's not so, he's going to be for a long time (being inactive) in the jail.
     
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