The topic of chemical castration for sex offenders remains a continuous subject riddled with debates and ethical questions. While the debate still continues, some countries like Russia and Poland ...

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood is looking into a potential “national rollout” of chemical castration for sex offenders. This is a process of lowering testosterone levels with the intention of ...

The justice secretary has been told to scrap her plans for mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders by the experts leading her own existing voluntary pilot, it has been reported. In May, ...

LONDON — The British government will roll out the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the ...

The UK government has announced plans to expand its trial of using drugs to reduce the libido of male sex offenders. The approach, often described as “chemical castration”, is controversial. But how ...

Louisiana lawmakers on Monday approved a bill that would expand judges’ powers to sentence people convicted of certain sex crimes against children to physical castration. If passed into law, the bill ...