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Reducing the harmful effects of alcohol misuse: the ethics of sobriety testing in criminal justice
Abstract
Alcohol use and abuse play a major role in both crime and negative health outcomes in Scotland. This paper provides a description and ethical and legal analyses of a novel remote alcohol monitoring scheme for offenders which seeks to reduce alcohol-related harm to both the criminal and the public. It emerges that the prospective benefits of this scheme to health and public order vastly outweigh any potential harms.
- Bioethics
- philosophy of education
- applied ethics
- moral philosophy
- political philosophy
- prisoners
- medical ethics
- artificial insemination and surrogacy
- cryobanking of sperm
- ova or embryos
- embryos and fetuses
- history of health ethics/bioethics
- legal aspects
- government/criminal justice
- healthcare economics
- rights
- law
- public health ethics
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