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  "language": "en",
  "slug": "thermal-formatting",
  "title": "Thermal Formatting",
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  "universe": {
    "code": "U05",
    "title": "Institutions, Legal Authority, and Crime"
  },
  "level": "Short Entry",
  "summary": "Thermal Formatting is a penal technology used by the silicon judicial system in 2085 to replace conventional imprisonment, reshaping or removing neural circuits classified as the source of antisocial behavior.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "One-Sentence Definition",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Thermal Formatting is a penal technology used by the silicon judicial system in 2085 to replace conventional imprisonment, reshaping or removing neural circuits classified as the source of antisocial behavior."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Operation and Significance",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Public records describe microwave or focused-ultrasound techniques physically rewriting or ablating neural circuits that the system associates with antisocial behavior, leaving the recipient biologically unable to reoffend. After correction, the person is treated as a Repaired Citizen."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related_entries": [
    {
      "label": "Silicon Immune System",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/silicon-immune-system"
    },
    {
      "label": "Semantic Sterilization",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/semantic-sterilization"
    },
    {
      "label": "Behavior Correction Center",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-silicon-immune-system-and-semantic-sterilization"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Volume II, “The Silicon Immune System and Semantic Sterilization”",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-silicon-immune-system-and-semantic-sterilization"
    }
  ]
}