LONDON
AP
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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 that it was planning to make it compulsory.
“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,” she said.
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 that she inherited a judicial system which had been neglected for years by the previous conservative government and has set up the exam as a means of stabilizing it.
“If our prisons collapse, the courts are forced to suspend the trials,” she said. “The police must interrupt their arrests, the crime remains unpunished, the criminals embark on the kingdoms and reign of chaos. We are faced with the rupture of the law and the order in this country. ”
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 so that many others are labeled 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 court spokesman for the Conservatives, warned that the abolition of short sentences would indeed be offenses to “decriminalize” as a burglary, a flight and assault. And the tags, he said, are as useful as “the smoke alarms turning on joy fires” to stop recurrent.
In response, Mahmood said that it was cleaning the waste left by the conservatives and that the government has also embarked on the greatest expansion of the penitentiary domain since Victorian times in the 19th century.
