Virginia Considers Surgical Castration of Sex Offenders
News Channel 3 in the Hampton Roads is reporting:
"Senator Emmett Hanger is promoting legislation that would allow the operation. He says he's fed up with ineffective and costly treatment for sexual predators."
Further they report others argue against this as being effective claiming that sexual offenders are motivated by more than just the aspect of sexual desires.
Interestingly, I recently read a study that was conducted by the Virginia Department of Corrections.
The results surprised me and is contrary to popular belief. The study reveals that sex offenders (at 3.2 percent) are the most unlikely group to offend again. This was a totally unexpected result, since many have emphasized that repeat sexual offenders are the norm rather than the exception. Property crimes was found to hold the largest number of repeat offenders. (at 48 percent)
In any case, even just one repeat of a sexual offence in a rape or child molestation is enough for me to think castration is worth considering.
posted by B O B @ 8:35 AM
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4 Comments:
Hi Bob. We have one of those contraptions to castrate bulls and it always makes me feel week at the knees when using them, just the threat might be enough.
Hi Melissa, castration may help in some cases but not all. It is already used in eight states as an alternative to a jail sentence. I see the picture got your attention, perhaps just the image of that picture would deter some from the idea of being a sex offender.
Hi all and thanks for the comments the Viriginia corrections study considered 514 individuals released in 1998, of all the crimes this contained the least number followed. The methodology of the study was exact for all groups.
This is a partial summary.
1. Recidivists (Who Committed A New Crime) by Offense Type
Nearly 48% of offenders were returned for a property crime. Of the property crime recidivists, 54.6% (742) committed a new crime within the same offense category.
Twenty-three percent of offenders were returned for drug offenses. Of the recidivists in the drug category, 315 or (23.2%) were re-incarcerated for a crime committed within the same offense category.
Seventeen percent of those who recidivated were returned for non-sex violent crimes. Of the recidivists in the violent category, 12.9% (175) committed a new crime within the same offense category as their original offense.
Almost eight percent of those who recidivated were returned for non-violent crimes. Of the non-violent recidivists, 6.3% (85) of recidivists in this category were re-incarcerated for the same offense type.
Sex crime recidivists made up 3.7% of the total recidivists. Of the sex crime recidivists, 3.1% (42) committed a new crime within the same offense category.
2. Time Out before Re-Commitment
The overall average time out in the community before reincarceration for a technical violation or new crime was 1.5 years.
The first recidivist that was returned for a new crime within every offense category, except sex crimes, recidivated within one month or less. There were three property offenders who recidivated in less than one month. It took four months for the first sex crime recidivist to be returned to prison.
If you are interested in reading the detailed summary here is the link. What I looked at was the latest study for 2005
So how I stumbled across this interesting conversation, I am a man and a father of two wonderful young men. Although I am not from West Virginia myself, my father grew up in bluefield West Virginia. I do believe that anybody who do not control themselves I keep their hands to themselves and decide that they want to be a pedophile or a rapist of any kind should have it done the very first time. I know that sounds a little harsh to some people, but to those people who will violate it they will never be the same. I have a really close friend who's mother and twin sister went through the ordeal with their own father. Both of them grew up to be great parents, but, the one that got the worst of it, had several nervous breakdowns. They both turned out to be excellent mothers have been gone that did not carry on to the next generation. I did hear that on his deathbed he did ask for their forgiveness, and this is after they took care of them as he got old. And they did forgive him and said it was okay that he could go now and 2 minutes later he died sobbing. I bet if you threw that front of a sexual predators face before they decided to but we're talking about, they would probably have the same or close to the same look on their face or fear in their eyes as it got closer to them. I'm sorry if this depends anybody, I am a God fearing man, and believe if you do the crime pay the time accordingly. And again my opinion may be so hard because of knowing someone who'sand mother went through that and I consider her to me like a mother figure to myself especially as I was growing up. Thank you for allowing me to share
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