Medicalization of sex offenders
Résumé
Developing a medical and legal program providing treatment to sex offenders constitutes an emblematic case of medicalization, a process whereby problems that are at first glance considered non-medical are defined and treated as medical problems. Such a program, which combines punishment and medical treatment, was implemented in France in the late 1990s to deter and punish sex crimes more efficiently and fight against recidivism. It brought about the creation of court-ordered treatment (in replacement of or following an unsuspended term of imprisonment) and also developed in prisons under the form of “treatment incentives” since no form of coercive treatment can be administered within prison walls
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