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The Impact of Surgical Castration on Sexual Recidivism Risk Among Sexually Violent Predatory Offenders

Linda E. Weinberger, Shoba Sreenivasan, Thomas Garrick and Hadley Osran
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online March 2005, 33 (1) 16-36;
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Table 2

Table 2

Summary of Surgical Castration Studies Regarding Sexual Recidivism

StudyCastrated Sex OffendersNoncastrated Sex
 Offenders
Number of
 SubjectsSex Crime
 History Prior to
 Current OffenseFollow‐up PeriodSexual Recidivism
 After OrchiectomySexual Recidivism of
 Noncastrates in Same
 Follow‐up Period
Legislative Report
 (California, 1952)256027.5%*2 months to 13
 years0%No comparison group
Bremer
 (Norway, 1959)31†10258%‡1 to 10 years2.9%§No comparison group
Langelüddeke
 (Germany, 1963)32†103684%‖6 weeks to 20
 years2.3%N = 685 (39.1%)
Cornu
 (Switzerland, 1973)33†12176.86%‖5 to 35 years7.44%N = 50 (52%)
Sand et al./Stürup
 (Denmark, 1964,29
 197228)90042%‖6 to more
 than 10 years1.1%No comparison group
Wille & Beier
 (Germany, 1989)3599Unclear¶11 years, average3%N = 35 (46%)
Hansen
 (Denmark, 1991)30#21No informationMore than 15 years10%**N = 22 (36%)
  • * Data for 40 of the 60 subjects (Table 1); one or more arrests and/or convictions.

  • † Data from this study reported in Heim and Hursch.23

  • ‡ One or more incidents of sexual relapse before castration (unclear whether arrests and/or convictions).

  • § For those 41 subjects observed for 5 to 10 years, 7% recidivism rate.

  • ‖ Two or more convictions.

  • ¶ Data unclear as to whether sexual charges reflect instant offense only, prior sex offenses, or a combination.

  • # Data from this study reported in Hansen and Lykke‐Olesen.27

  • ** After two subjects took exogenous testosterone.

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