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Report: Funding for sex offender treatment lacking
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And the tree is???????????
Well duh.
(If you can't figure that out, you've got A LOT of COMPANY--A whole nation and a whole world with its head buried in the sand.)
Treatment programs work. Many sex offenders are not hard-core perverts, but commit crimes of opportunity. Counseling will help get them back on track, so they can repent of their sins and become productive members of society again.
Society would be a better place if we could rehabilitate these people.
But in our country, with the First Amendment standing as the big hurdle for law enforcement, any attempts to stop it completely will fail. It's a tough situation for the prisons and other correctional facilities.
Given the legal difficulties in stopping pornography, perhaps the only thing we can do is put more money into the system to train those who have become its victims to leave it alone.
You point out we should be afraid of the low 17% bunch. Well unless one of them are related to you or are good friends with you or your child, chances are your kids have no reason to fear... almost all are abused by those they know. Abuse by strangers is quite rare.
Hacking: Are you insinuating castration? Castration alone won't stop the problem. Why? Because the problem lies in the person's mind, it's a mental issue... thought patterns need to be corrected. You can castrate them but they'll still have the same thoughts and desires. Castration of the abuser doesn't eliminate all the ways a person can be sexually abused.
You're wrong about them not changing. Many can and do indeed change and go on to lead normal productive lives, never commiting this crime again. Only a small percentage of those who successfully complete a therapy program re-peat their crimes.
We do need greater funding for these programs as it's proven that they work. These people, like anyone else, deserve another chance.
Do you also call for a death sentence for those who commit DUI's? Or do you just reserve it for sex offenders? Oh and keep in mind that not every sex offender is a child abuser, it also applies to crimes against adults.
True sex offenders do not offend just for the sensual pleasure. It is more a control issue--lack of control on their part, and a need to control someone else they deem to be weaker. Some are violent rapists. But as Steve said, most offenders are family members, friends or acquaintences, especially the fondling, improper touching kind of offenses.
Counseling is very effective for those who complete it successfully, and want to change their lives. I would worry far more about the offenders who haven't been caught and haven't received counseling.
Dealing with a runaway or unruly child takes a lot of hard work. A suicidal or addicted child can tear your heart out. A drink now and then saves your sanity. And kids know how to push your buttons and make you mad enough to kill but, of course, you would never do such a thing.
Adults no longer have a vested interest in their children and everyone in the family goes their own direction. Ignoring is much simpler than arguing and disciplining. They are going to do what they want anyway so why bother with a ruckus. Right?
You will find that less than 1/100th of 1% were snatched but the number that people care about and are willing to spend our resources on is much lower. To qualify for an outcry there must be a combination of sex, violence and death.
Page 11 of the report states that "�40 missing children who were stereotypically kidnapped and killed (an estimated 35) or were still missing (approximately 5) at the time of the study." Yes, that is too many. But are we going to ignore all the others to concentrate on less than 1/200th of 1%?
1296 were shot to death by someone,
145 were stabbed to death,
89 were strangled,
37 were burned alive,
17 were poisoned,
603 shot themselves,
559 hung themselves, and
6132 were killed in traffic accidents.
This tells us that in 2002:
Your child was 1400% more likely to hang themselves than be snatched and killed by a sex offender.
Your child was 1500% more likely to shoot themselves than be snatched and killed by a sex offender
Your child was 3200% more likely to be murdered by firearm by someone besides a sex offender.
Your child was 4000% more likely to be shot, stabbed, strangled, burned alive or poisoned than snatched and killed by a sex offender.
Your child was 15300% more likely to be killed in a car crash than snatched and killed by a sex offender.
Your child is 2600% more likely to be killed by you because you couldn�t be bothered to put their seatbelt on when you felt like driving drunk with your kid in the car. Are these the same parents who scream for tougher laws to protect their children against sex offenders??
These are huge numbers of children being killed in brutal ways - it's like a war zone out there. Or is that an exaggeration?
The public is blind and being manipulated, do some research before making comment. when the prison says RE-OFFEND that includes every kind of offence out there. lets see them print RE-OFFENDS SEXUALLY. Unfortunatly some do, but not 17%. The prison is an industry, some peoples income comes from those who offend. What do you think they want you to believe???
plus you people should read your constitution!
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