biological policy

• a crime control policy refers to the laws, regulation and government actions and strategies that are designed to reduce crime rates, one of the main aims in criminal justice act 2003 is public protection- it is a key role of government and policy makers to control crime rates
• what are the 3 biological policies ?

  eugenics, surgical castration, death penalty
• francis galton?

  'improving the genetic quality of the human population' referring to eugenics
• nazi germany regime killed over 200,00 disabled people and forcible sterilized over twice that number
• eugenics in britain ?

  eugenics support called for government policies to improve the quality of human race through 'selective parents', they linked disabilities with crime, vagrancy, alcoholism, prostitution and unemployment
• eugenics across the globe ?

  reaches astounding proportion in first half of 20th century, between 1907 and 1963 over 60,000 eugenic sterilizations were performed in USA, aproxx 20,000 were californian women inmates
• surgical sterilisation ?

  biological method derived from lombrosos concept of born criminal, attempting to eliminate the problem of crime by eliminating the reproductive opportunities for criminals
• capital punishment was last performed in england in 1964, suspended in 1965 and fully stopped in 1998
• capital punishment is legal in china, saudi arabia , iraq, iran and america
• pros of death penalty ?

  deterrant, seen as 'an eye for an eye', closure for victims family, protecting society to the maximum
• cons of death penalty ?

  small chance of executing an innocent person, goes against the right to live, may be painful death
• capital punishment process is quicker in singapore than the usa where people are waiting between 20-30 years
• biochemical processes ?

  stilbestrol has been used to chemically castrate prisoners
• alcohol can trigger violence, antabuse has been used to combat this, heroin addiction leads to criminality, methadone has been used to combat this, violent prisoners are sedated such as valium, librium and largactil