TITLE:
Chemical Castration: International Experience and Chinese Path to Control Pedophilia Crimes
AUTHORS:
Jin Zhuang
KEYWORDS:
Chemical Castration, Catamite Crime, Sexual Crime
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Applied Sociology,
Vol.8 No.8,
August
9,
2018
ABSTRACT: The current penalties in China are not sufficient to effectively curb pedophilia. Chemical castration is not the corporal punishment in real sense but indicates reducing the medical treatment of the criminal’s lust by injecting anti-androgen drugs without causing perpetual harm to the criminal’s body. It includes many aspects such as penalty execution procedure & object, treatment position, and penalty execution replacement & guarantee, etc. There are characteristic regulations on it in many states of America. The drastic argument on issues including the constitutionality, fairness, effectiveness and economy of the penalty is held in the American academic circle. Chemical castration has remarkable effect in urging catamite crime, which is worth of referring to for Chinese criminal law. However, it is necessary to take precaution against the limitation in design of the specific system.