J Med Ethics. 2012 Apr 19. [Epub ahead of print]
Reducing the harmful effects of alcohol misuse: the ethics of sobriety testing in criminal justice.
Source
Dental School,University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
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.
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