AC4.1

Question 1

alcohol abuse / antabuse

Answer 1

this can trigger violent behaviour
antabuse is used in aversion therapy to treat alcoholism. It works by preventing the body from breaking down alcohol immediately causing unpleasant hangover symptoms

Question 2

heroin addiction / methadone

Answer 2

often leads addicts to commit crime to pay for the drug
methadone is used to treat addicts, as a long term alternative to heroin or to prevent withdrawal symptoms

Question 3

sex offenders/ stilbestrol

Answer 3

stilbestrol is a female hormone that supressess testosterone as a way of reducing men’s sex drive

Question 4

what did Gesch et al find about diet

Answer 4

that supplementing prisoners diets with vitamins, minerals and fatty acids caused a remarkable reduction in anti social behaviour

Question 5

Vitamin B3

Answer 5

been used to treat some forms of schizophrenia, a disorder sometimes associated with violent behaviour

Question 6

surgical castration

Answer 6

has been used to attempt to change offending behaviour

Question 7

lobotomy

Answer 7

a major procedure that involves cutting the connection between the frontal lobes of the brain and the thalamus. It has been used to treat paranoid schizophrenia and sexually motivated crimes

Question 8

crowd control and public order offences

Answer 8

tear gas may be used to control crowds or disperse riots.

Question 9

eugenics

Answer 9

The fear that the human race was degenerating because the poor were breeding at a faster than the higher classes. As a result, they were passing on supposedly inferior genes for low intelligence.

Question 10

compulsory sterilisation

Answer 10

of defectives such as criminals (since they believed criminality to be hereditary) and those with mental illnesses or learning difficulties.

Question 11

The Nazis racial purity policies

Answer 11

The most extreme case of eugenic policies
they eliminated those they deemed to be unfit to breed