Biological informing policy development

• Crime control policies-treatment programmes to reduce offending

  Drug treatments : alcoholism - that leads to antisocial behaviour , antabuse is aversion therapy , creates painful hangovers

  Heroin - Methadone is a ling term alternative , legal medically controlled

  Sex offenders - Stilbestrol is a chemical castration , suppresses testosterone . Side effects = breasts , feminisation , physchitric disorders
• Diet - Gesch et al found supplementing prisoners diet with vitamins , minerals and fatty acids reduced antisocial behaviour up to 37%

  Surgery - aims to prevent offending ; lobotomy is a major procedure that cuts the connection between frontal lobe and thalamus ,

  Surgical castration used to change so's behaviour - involves removing the testicles to stop the production of testosterone
• Eugenics - criminal behaviour is cause by inheriting a ‘criminal gene.’ The idea is now discredited - early 20th century it was a movement known as Eugenics.

  -->they feared race was degenerating passing on low iq , poverty , insanity

  -->Eugenicists argued that the ‘genetically unfit’ should be prevented from breeding. They favoured policies like compulsory sterilisation.