Neurointerventions, Recidivist Sex Offenders, and Situated Moral Agency: An Approach From the Margins

摘要

With the growing potential to address the biological conditions that lead to criminal behavior, scholarly engagement on the usage of mandatory neurointerventions as a condition of release from incarceration or as an alternative to incarceration altogether has increased in recent years. One of the most commonly implemented neurointerventions in the criminal justice setting has been the chemical castration of recidivist sex offenders. Chemical castration describes pharmacotherapy of males to reduce testosterone levels and is believed to significantly reduce the likelihood for recidivism, though few data support this claim (Basdekis-Jozsa et al. 2013).