Act on Voluntary Castration and Other Treatments
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Act on Voluntary Castration and Other Treatments |
| Abbreviation: | KastrG (not official) |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Criminal law |
| References : | 453-16 |
| Issued on: | August 15, 1969 ( BGBl. I p. 1143 ) |
| Entry into force on: | February 15, 1970 |
| Last change by: |
Art. 2 G of November 4, 2016 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2460, 2463 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
November 10, 2016 (Art. 3 G of November 4, 2016) |
| GESTA : | C101 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The German law on voluntary castration and other treatment methods describes in twelve paragraphs the circumstances under which castration carried out on a man by a doctor is not punishable as bodily harm . It thus describes a criminal justification .
According to the law, castration is treatment directed against the effects of an abnormal sexual drive in order to prevent, cure or alleviate serious illnesses, mental disorders or ailments related to the abnormal sexual drive in the person concerned (§ § 1 , 2 Paragraph 1 No. 2 CastrG).
Castration is also not punishable if the person concerned has an abnormal sex drive which, based on his personality and previous lifestyle, suggests that certain sexual offenses will be committed ( Section 2 (2) CastrG). The law is particularly aimed at sex offenders .
The person concerned must effectively consent to the castration, in the case of minors the legal representative (s ) with custody ( § 3 , § 4 Paragraph 3 CastrG), which excludes compulsory sterilization .
The actual voluntariness is also the crux of the criticism if the offender only by the prison time shortened and a subsequent lifelong preventive detention can be avoided.
literature
- Castration: Questionable freedom . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1970, pp. 163-165 ( Online - Feb. 23, 1970 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Mayr: To avoid preventive detention - sex offenders can have their testicles removed. Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 9, 2008. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
