And yet time and again, we puzzle over the question of how to deal with adults that are sexually attracted to and victimize children, despite the obvious answer: lock them up in an institution until there is a cure.
JJ Main
Last Updated: 9th September 2009, 2:20am
The question arises every time a pedophile is arrested: why do these
guys get out again, and again and again, when they're likely to
reoffend?
If your answer is that the law is an ass, you're wrong on this front.
Not only are there federal statutes related to dangerous offender
designation that could be used much more frequently to indefinitely
confine, but some provinces -- including Alberta -- already allow for
indefinite forcible confinement of the mentally ill, when they're an
ongoing danger to the public.
The American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, which has
become something of an authority on such issues, considers pedophilia
to be a mental illness.
It does not make the broad statement that it is incurable, but it is
an accepted reality of the psychiatric profession that so far there is
no known effective treatment.
And yet time and again, we puzzle over the question of how to deal
with adults that are sexually attracted to and victimize children,
despite the obvious answer: lock them up in an institution until there
is a cure.
Our increasing understanding of the world around us, hastened by
instant communication and the Internet, has brought a lot of
pedophiles out of the closet and onto the web. The material they love
is frighteningly available, compared to two decades ago, when a
pedophile had one small stash he kept to himself.
Coupled with our broadening understanding of the pervasive influence
of sociopathy and similar-but-lesser anti-social personality disorders
on society, it becomes clear that mental illness's impact goes far
beyond the cost of housing or treating winos in the inner city.
The politically easy answer is to yell a lot about it without really
doing anything. Demons that are never slain can be fought again and
again, whenever the politician needs to score some points.
Indefinite confinement is costly. But given that huge swaths of what
every government already does simply services bureaucracy and waste,
that's not a strong argument against it.
The arguments for it are obvious.
kirb
I got a better one for you hang their ass to deter evil
kirb
HUNG
da da...da :B JEE WILLACKERS I MIGHT HAVE TO HAVE A CONSCIENCE INSTEAD
kirb
pay their electric left for dead and you want to house a sicko - three
squares a day
EVEN THE WORKING MAN ALMOST CAN'T GET THE 3 SQUARES
something aint right
Steady Eddy
Most pedophiles are smokers
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