The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (CPT) have conducted visits and written reports criticising the …

John McMillan's article raises numerous important points about the ethics of surgical
castration of sex offenders. 1 In this commentary, we focus solely on and argue against the …

This paper will address the use of surgical castration as treatment for sex offenders. Special
emphasis will be placed on the case of the Czech Republic as the only country in Europe in …

The recent European literature on surgical castration in treatment of sex offenders is
reviewed. Results are reported of the most important empirical studies conducted in this field …

Between 1938 and 1968 some 400 sex offenders in the Netherlands who by court orders
had been put at 'the discretion of the government'and were incarcerated in asylums for the …

Discusses the history of biological treatments for sexual violence and the legal responses to
them. After discussing surgical castration, this chapter focuses on evolving techniques of …

Harvey Dale Angel is a 40-year-old male serving a 25-year prison sentence for aggravated
sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl in 1988.'He has been incarcerated repeatedly since 1971 …

On March 11, 1997, in a Chicago suburb, Jeffrey Morse used a toy gun in an attempt to
coerce a 9-year-old girl into his car to touch his penis. The girl escaped, and Morse was …

The use of castration as a punitive measure, practiced for centuries by other cultures, has
enjoyed newfound prominence in this country's criminal justice system as a potential remedy …

Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue
that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient …