London – The British government must deploy the use of drugs to remove the libido of sex offenders, as part of a set of measures to reduce the risk of recurrence and relieve pressure from the penitentiary system, which lacks space.
In a declaration to Parliament Thursday after the publication of an independent sentence examination, the Secretary of Justice, Shabana Mahmood, said that the so-called chemical castration would be used in 20 prisons in two regions.
“And I explore if the approach of the approach is possible,” she said. “Of course, it is essential that this approach is adopted alongside psychological interventions which target other causes of offensive, such as affirming power and control.”
Although the examination stressed that the treatment would not be relevant to certain sex offenders such as rapists motivated by power and control, rather than on sexual concern, Mahmood said that studies show that chemical castration can lead to a reduction of 60% recurrence.
It was used in Germany and Denmark on a voluntary basis and in Poland as compulsory for certain offenders.
The recommendation was part of a large -scale examination led by the former Secretary of Justice, David Gauke. In addition to seeking means to reduce recurrence, Gauke has recommended reforms to revise the prisons system, which takes place roughly.
One of the first things that Mahmood did as Minister of Justice after the return of work after 14 years last July was to sanction an early release program for prisoners to free up space. She says she does not want to redo this and set up the exam and appointed a preservative predecessor to supervise it.
The examination recommended that criminals can be released from prison earlier than at present, while judges may have more flexibility to impose sanctions such as driving prohibitions. He also recommended that sentences of less than 12 months will also be removed, with the exception of exceptional circumstances such as cases of domestic violence.
He also called for immediate expulsion of foreign nationals pronounced a sentence of three years or less.
The examination called for higher investments in the probation service to allow agents to spend more time with offenders for their rehabilitation and their additional funding for the tens of thousands of additional offenders as an electronically marking in the community.
Mahmood responded by giving a year of 700 million pounds ($ 930 million) per year for probation in a few years.
“If the government does not put the resources in probation which is necessary, then the risk here is that we do not progress in the rehabilitation we need, and there will be a public reaction against it,” said Gauke.
The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the past 30 years to almost 90,000. It is despite a drop in crime rates and is partly motivated by the fact that longer sentences are pronounced in the middle of pressure to be difficult for crime.
Robert Jenrick, the spokesperson for justice for the conservatives, was clear in his opposition to the proposals and warned that the implementation of short sentences would indeed be “depending” offenses such as burglary, theft and aggression. And the labels, he said, are as useful as “the smoke alarms turning on joy fires” when it comes to ceasing to reoffend.
In addition to the acceptance of changes, the government said that it would undertake a large prisons construction program, in part to replace some that have been used since Victorian times at the end of the 19th century.
