Overview of Incapacitating Agents

Incapacitation, the removal of the offender from society to prevent them from harming society further, has been in use since ancient times. The incapacitation may be in the form of exile, penal colonies, prison, or placement in a mental institution. Regardless of the form, incapacitation places its focus on the future behavior of the offender and on the characteristics of the offender. It assumes that since that majority of crime is committed by a small number of criminals, removing them from society will reduce crime. What this theory does not take in to

-tear gas (CN or CS gas), pepper sprat (OC aerosol spray), MACE (CN in an aerosol spray propelled by volatile solvents), stun grenade.

Restraints is an intervention used to confine a person to prevent injury to self or others. Different types of restraints include physical, chemical and seclusion. A physical restraint is anything that prevents the patient from being able to freely move. This can include seat belts, wrist restraints, vests, bed rails, etc. A chemical restraint is using a drug for sedation which also restricts movement or freedom. An example of a chemical restraint can be an antipsychotic. These drugs can be used to reduce anxiety, aggression, and violent behavior. Lastly, seclusion is isolating or confining the patient to a room where they cannot leave. This form of restraint is also to protect the patient from harming them self or others. The use of restraints or seclusion can be a useful intervention if all other interventions have failed. Patients should not be harmed with these restraints so it is crucial they are done properly. Patients who are put in restraints

Incapacitation is another goal behind criminal sentencing. The idea is simple. By incapacitating someone (keeping them in prison) they will no longer be able to commit crimes against society. Long prison sentences are not the only means of incapacitating someone. Incapacitation looks at reducing the offender’s ability and opportunity to commit future crimes. This can be done through intensive supervision, electronic monitoring, and even the requirement to register as a sex offender can be seen as incapacitating. Incapacitation assumes that most criminals will continue to commit crimes if they are not restrained.

Pancuronium Bromide is a muscle relaxant. It has no hypnotic effects, and, if the anaesthetic agent used in lethal injection is doesn’t work, the inmamte may never become unconscious. Therefore, the inmate will be able to feel all of the pain associated with the procedure. However, they will be unable to cry out or move due to the complete paralysis of pancuronium.

As crime and criminals have evolved over time, so have the police strategies with having to deal with criminal behavior. A less-than-lethal force strategy is one that the police have been focusing on. As stated in an article by Trostle (1990), there are several types of less-than-lethal force weapons. These range from; electrical devices, such as the TASER gun; chemical devices, such as tear gas; impact devices, such as the baton; and other rifle-launched soft projectiles impact devices, such as rubber and PVC bullets. For close proximity encounters, the TASER is frequently used. The TASER’s purpose is to incapacitate, temporarily, the suspect in order for police to regain control of the situation. Research has shown that a TASER has had an

The foremost unethical consequence of torture is the undeniable emotional and physical pain it leaves on people. Many forms of torture exist in the world, from isolation (a state where one is normally confined in a small single-colored room without any windows or cellmates to communicate with) to abacination (the act of making a person blind by holding a hot red plate to their eyes). In any and most torture occurrences, the person being torture is brutally scared for the rest of

Medicines. These include muscle relaxants, sedatives, and medicines called anticholinergics. Treatment with medicine is less successful than injections.

Chemical restraints are the medication used in order to sedate and help treat the patient in crisis. The patient should always be offered the option to take the medication orally, but if they refuse the medication is given I.V. The three meds Mclean tended to use in tandem were Ativan, Haldol and Benadryl. All three can have strong sedative effects. I was taught that Ativan and Haldol are antipsychotics and Benadryl is there to help if the patient has an allergic reaction to the other two medications. Physical restraints were often referred to as “going hands on” this means that staff is physically holding down the patient. I was taught that technically any guiding or even holding a patients hand to help lead them somewhere was considered a physical restraint. Finally, mechanical restraints were the equipment used to hold a patient down until the sedatives took effect and the patient was

This drug basically numbs the body and forces the person to sleep leading to a quiet death. This is the most humane drug that is currently being used and there is no other way. They have evolved and tried using other drugs but they cause physical pain instead of trying to help.

of their use. (1) Other methods such as epidural analgesia are effective, but require extra work

The article talks about how the methods for punish a crime has changed until today, as well as society and science. The article is based on how the lethal injection works this is a practical way of death penalty, instead of the electric chair, the gas chamber or the traditional hanging.

Sedation and analgesia is defined as a continuum of states ranging from minimal sedation through general anesthesia. Characteristics of minimal, moderate, deep sedation and general anesthesia are given below (Table 1).

The procedure for clinical (medical) seclusion and restraint if needed or the medical necessity to modify forensic restraint to carry out needed patient treatment.

A retrospective review of the administration of intramuscular ketamine as a chemical restraint in the prehospital setting was led by Burnett, Peterson, Stellpflug, Engebretsen, Glasrud, Marks and Frascone (2015).