Biological Policies

Question 1

What is drug therapy

Answer 1

Drug treatments that control criminal behaviour

Question 2

What does methadone reduce

Answer 2

Heroin addiction
Stealing
Selling drugs

Question 3

What does stilbestrol reduce

Answer 3

Female hormones reduces sex drive
Reduce sexual crimes

Question 4

What does Antabuse reduce

Answer 4

Alcohol abuse
Violent crimes
Drunk and disorderly

Question 5

What does valium reduce

Answer 5

Violent crimes by prisoners

Question 6

Is drug therapy still used today

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Strengths of drug therapy

Answer 7

Effective, ethical and easy to stop doing

Question 8

Drug therapy side effects

Answer 8

Stilbesterol can cause breast development, feminisation and serious psychiatric disorders.

Question 9

Drug therapy routines

Answer 9

Criminals have to take them ever day, but if they have a complicated lifestyle they will forgeth, reducing their impact.

Question 10

Drug therapy labelling

Answer 10

Labels offenders as mentally ill rather than holding the accountable, creating excuses for their behaviour and reducing personal responsibility. Can also make them reliant on drugs to ‘not be criminal’

Question 11

Drug therapy effort

Answer 11

Very little effort to take one pill a day rather than attending talking therapy sessions, this is more accessible to offenders

Question 12

What is surgery

Answer 12

Alters offenders brains or bodies to prevent them from offending

Question 13

What is surgical castration

Answer 13

A medical procedure to remove testicles
Treats sex offenders

Question 14

Are surgical castrations used today

Answer 14

Yes, but not to reduce crime
Germany and Czech Republic use it

Question 15

Surgeries being irreversable

Answer 15

If someone is found to be wrongly convicted, we cannot reverse their surgery and they will be affected for life

Question 16

Surgery ethics

Answer 16

Reduces their human rights as they do not get a choice in the surgery (no consent and there is harm)

Question 17

Surgery evidence

Answer 17

There is no evidence that surgeries prevent criminals from offending again in the future.

Question 18

What is a lobotomy

Answer 18

popular in 1930 to treat schizophrenics but severing frontal lobe
Reduce violent crimes

Question 19

Are lobotomies still used today

Answer 19

Rarely but it is still legal

Question 20

What is eugenics

Answer 20

Removing the unfit or weak from society, to reduce crimes by working class

Question 21

Eugenics racism

Answer 21

Can turn into segregation and discrimination of races, genders, and classes

Question 22

Eugenics corruption

Answer 22

Can be used by corrupt leaders in a ‘legal’ sense, such as Nazi’s using eugenics on Jewish, black and disabled individuals to get a ‘pure’ Aryan race.

Question 23

Is eugenics still used today

Answer 23

Illegal in UK and most of the world, some countries still use it (indigenous women in Canada), 2015 judge sterilised a mother of 6 who had disabilities

Question 24

What is the death penalty

Answer 24

Ending a life by state execution (sentenced by government)
A deterrent from crime such as murder

Question 25

Methods of death penalty

Answer 25

Hanging, lethal injection, beheading when originated

Question 26

Is death penalty used today

Answer 26

Yea but only in a few places of the world (Belarus or US States such as Texas)

Question 27

Death penalty alleviating prisons

Answer 27

It alleviates prison overcrowding as they are removed from society completely, which is better for the economy and prison conditions. FM- makes streets safer as more criminals can be arrested.

Question 28

Death penalty eye for eye punishment

Answer 28

Does not show society's progression as some argue we have a responsibility to rehabilitate offenders rather than killing them.

Question 29

Death penalty irreversible

Answer 29

If a wrongful conviction s found to be made, it will have devastating consequences as the person cannot come back.

Question 30

vcounterproductive

Answer 30

It creates sympathy for offenders and the family of the offenders rather than the family of the victim and/or the victim.

Question 31

What is a diet

Answer 31

Diets are modified to effect agressive behaviour and reduce violent crimes

Question 32

Tuna and salmon diets

Answer 32

Serotonin rich, mood regulation

Question 33

Tartrazine diet

Answer 33

Avoided to reduce hyperactivity

Question 34

Are diets still used

Answer 34

Commonly as they are ethical and effective

Question 35

Diets research support

Answer 35

Gesch found that supplementing prisoner's diets with vitamins and minerals made a reduction of antisocial behaviour up to 37% in the case of violent incidents.

Question 36

Dits reversible method

Answer 36

If someone is wrongfully convicted, we can just stop giving the, the serotonin rich foods and there is no harm done

Question 37

Diets non-invasive

Answer 37

Changing diets is a natural intervention that has no medical risks or serious side effects, and also does not interfere with the life of the prisoner.