Question

Medical treatments to treat criminality, such as shock therapies, chemical castrations, and lobotomies have been used in the past to control and treat behavior that is outside of social norms. The drug companies make millions on drugs that alter behavior. Discuss the influence of biological and genetic factors in deviance and crime and what role the health care community should play in controlling and modify anti-social and/ or criminal behaviors.

Answer 1

Medical treatments are a part of the entire problem and to address the problem is another part of the problem. Medical treatments varies from time to time. Earlier electric shocks and other hard therapies were used to control the behaviour which now has been replaced by counselling and other cognitive therapies. For the health care communities first and foremost jobs would be to know the root cause for which the persons are committing the crimes. What are the possible reasons for which a person turns himself to be a criminal. Solving those problems automatically will decrease the crimes and the criminals. Always one thing should be kept in the mind that no persons are born criminals. Some situations, expressions, or problems they have faced in their early growth stages for which they turned themselves as criminals. Health care coomunities apart from this job can also address the problems of the criminals and restoring the mental state of mind to normality to minimise the crime rates.