1970
DOI: 10.1177/002580247001000105
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The Hormonal Treatment of Sexual Offenders

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“…Two investigators have used subcutaneous or intramuscular injections of long-acting estrogens with violent sex offenders (Chatz 1972;Field & Williams 1970). Both report that aggressive behavior was essentially eliminated during the period when the patients were undergoing estrogen therapy.…”
Section: Possible Biochemical Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two investigators have used subcutaneous or intramuscular injections of long-acting estrogens with violent sex offenders (Chatz 1972;Field & Williams 1970). Both report that aggressive behavior was essentially eliminated during the period when the patients were undergoing estrogen therapy.…”
Section: Possible Biochemical Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Older studies have viewed estrogen implants as successful in reducing reconviction rates among sex offenders. 13 Methodologic, ethical, and clinical (i.e. irreversible side effects) problems exist with surgical treatment modalities for paraphilics and sex offenders.…”
Section: Surgical Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sturup (1968Sturup ( , 1972 reported a 1 per cent reconviction rate for 900 sex offenders followed up for 30 years after castration, and similarly low reconviction rates have also been reported by Ortmann (1980). Oestrogen implants have also resulted in reports of reduced reconviction rates (Field & Williams, 1970). The main problems with these procedures are ethical.…”
Section: Castration and Anti-libidinal Medicationmentioning
confidence: 99%