Chronologically, it is justified to compare this study of Danish sexual offenders castrated during the period 1929-1959 with the above-mentioned followup until 1951/1953 of Danish men who had been recorded for sexual offences during the period 1929-1939.

"Europeans Debate Castration of Sex Offenders" The title of this article is the title of this interesting piece in today’s New York Times . The piece is a must-read for anyone focused on sex offender law and policy, in part because of one startling piece of (old) data noted in the article.

AT ISSUE Sex Offenders Is castration an acceptable punishment? Last March, Steven Allen Butler, who had d a 13-year-old teen, asked for surgical

In the sex offender castration studies that were reviewed, the sexual recidivism percentages were calculated from groups of highly variable castrated sex offenders, whose types of sex offenses and conditions of release were not well specified.

DANISH EXPERIENCES REGARDING THE CASTRATION OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS LOUIS LE MAIRE There has been a delay in publishing the following article because, due to an un-

In Denmark in the late 1950s and early 1960s sex offenders were permitted to choose prison or surgical castration. Research on 900 castrated sex offenders showed that the rate of repeat offenses

In Denmark, for example, individuals with a paraphilic disorder who were convicted of a sexual offence and who pleaded guilty can voluntarily choose to be treated with ADT ( Aagaard 2014).

The Texas law is part of a national push in the US for castration, both surgical and chemical, voluntary and forced, for sex offenders. Florida, after a long fight, recently followed California

men in order to produce males who could guard or serve a king’s physical castration than reversible chemical castration. CASTRATION AND SEXUAL AGGRESSION Throughout this country there currently exists an epidemic of sexual is another sexual offense of the Danish law for which castration is an option. Indecent exposure (ie

The eugenic legislation was a defining aspect in the development of the Nordic welfare state. While sterilization is a widely recognized method of restricting reproduction, another part of the legislation was the castration of male sex offenders for criminal-theutic purposes.