'Chemical Castration' OK'd For Montana Inmates - http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-97/04-27-97/a09wn032.htm
New York Times article about Montana's passage of a law approving, but not mandating, the use of chemical castration to reduce the sex drive of offenders who are about to be released from prison. |
A Strange Cure for Rape - http://www.kudzumonthly.com/kudzu/aug01/chemcastr.html
Article from the Kudzu Monthly on the United States' use of chemical castration focusing on Hazard Campbell and including sources and user comments. |
Accused Rapist to Undergo "Chemical Castration" - http://www.seacoastonline.com/1999news/11_13_sb1.htm
Article from the Portsmouth Herald about Hazard Campbell who agreed to undergo chemical castration prior to beginning a 25-years-to-life sentence for rape. |
BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/1/18
A peer-reviewed research paper on the return to fertility after extended chemical castration with a GnRH antagonist, including references. |
Castration Often Fails to Halt Offenders - http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/columnists/wickham/2001-09-04-wickham.htm
Article from USA Today on the wisdom of imprisoning and chemically treating rapists instead of giving them psychological counseling. |
Chemical Castration - Against - http://www.csun.edu/~psy453/crimes_n.htm
Student project asking if chemical castration is an acceptable punishment for male sex offenders, providing online resources against it. |
Chemical Castration - For - http://www.csun.edu/~psy453/crimes_y.htm
Student project asking if chemical castration is an acceptable punishment for male sex offenders, providing online resources in favor of it. |
Chemical Castration Bill Becomes Law - http://www.disconnect.net/underground/volume2/castration01.html
A satirical article from The Underground Online imagining chemical castration as the standard punishment for every crime. |
Chemical Castration: A Return to the Dark Ages - http://www.aclufl.org/body_chem.html
Article from the ACLU Florida about the chemical castration bill passed in Florida. |
Florida's 1997 Chemical Castration Law - http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/frames/252/spalfram.html
A review of the law by Larry Helm Spalding, including a history of castration in the United States, constitutional considerations, a civil liberties analysis, and a review of the ACLU's recommendations. |