Chemical castration: what are we talking about?
Verified 22 March 2021 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Chemical castration, also called libido-inhibiting therapy, is a medical treatment that aims to reduce a person's libido. It is not irreversible, i.e. its effects stop when the treatment is stopped.
Castration chemical is a medical treatment that aims to reduce the production of testosterone, by taking medicines. Treatment is aimed at reducing the individual's sexual impulses.
This effect lasts as long as the treatment is followed. When treatment is stopped, its effects also stop.
Please note
There are no castration measures in France physics against sex offenders.
Chemical castration involves perpetrators of sexual offenses, such as rape or sexual assault.
Treatment with a libido inhibitor is usually decided by a treatment order. This care order may be ordered in the context of a social-judicial follow-up, parole or a safety surveillance.
Treatment that inhibits libido can also be done by a social-medical-judicial center that takes care of people placed in security retention.
Chemical castration is not a sentence handed down by a judge, but a medical treatment decided by a doctor.
In the context of an injunction of care, issued by a correctional court or a criminal court, the doctor decides whether or not a treatment aimed at reducing the offender's libido is useful.
If the convicted person refuses to follow this treatment, even though it has been prescribed by a doctor, this constitutes a violation of his obligations contained in the judicial measure. The convicted person can then return to prison.