Do murderers deserve counselling? read on..?

Question

I was watching a program in the BBC about life behind bars in UK. They interview inmates and staff and so on... In an interview with one of the counsellors, he talked a bit about the psychological therapy murderers received, and the thing is, sometimes they miss the person they have killed, and feel tortured by this, because they are finally mourning someone they killed themselves, I guess it must be torture, but after what they have done, is it fair?

Do they deserve to be treated? Or should they be left with all that guilt, grief and well, the whole psychological torture. Should we treat them as human beings and give an example of how they should treat others, without judgement. OR are we getting in the way of karma, well.. life, what’s coming to them anyway.

No silly answers please, I didn't ask a silly question..but I'll post a silly one soon.
Should this be in Sociology? I wasnt sure..

I'm just asking, I'm not saying if it' s wrong or right, can't decide if it shows evolution or is just being over protective

Answer 1

the facts show that something like 70% of murders are premeditated so there is nothing to treat.
if murder is not premeditated or accidental as in a fight it is normally manslaughter,so in this case treatment could be very useful.
but generally i would say each case should be decided individually based on the circumstances.
mike

Answer 2

I Feel Murderers Should Be Left With Their Guilt, Grief,And Psychological Torture,
Because The Families Of The Victims Are Left With Their Grief, And Guilt And Psychological Torture, That They Could Not help In The Victims Hour Of Need.
I Hope Murderers Are Tortured Until Their Life Ends, I Hope Their Life Feels Like An Abyss Of Misery.

Answer 3

Please look into the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Murder is slightly increasing each year.
Many correction methods have come and gone without significant results against recidivism.
The monetary costs of incarceration has skyrocketed. Tremendous tolls are taken on american pocketbooks to house, feed and guard murderers each year.
Murders tend to repeat the behaviors which incarcerated them.
Society, collectively, does not want murderers circulating within the mainstream because they diverge so far from normal behaviors.
As a member of this society, I feel strongly about the limits of punishment for murderers.
I believe murderers should pay for their crimes with their lives.
This will serve three important elements. (1) Reduced the very high costs of housing, feeding and guarding. (2) Reduce costs of counselling (which has been totally ineffective). (3) Discontinue the predation murderers represent when paroled into the public domain where they committed the terrible offence in the beginning (I sure don't want them around me).
Move in the right direction. Help protect your fellow man from further indignities at the hands of murderers.

Answer 4

I've been involved in a few "upliftment" projects with people in jail.All of them "doing time" for violent and serious crime.

Whether or not they deserve counscelling is an emotional issue.
One the one hand - if you violated some-one else's human rights, r u still entitled to your own human rights?
On the other hand, the idea of prison is not only to punish, but also to rehabilitate the offender.

Most jails r overcrowded etc. From what i have seen all sense of selfworth is taken away from the prisoner - conditions r truely appaling. That only breeds contemp 4 the people on "the outside".

Hence so many repeat offenders.

research - criminology - it is a multi fasseted problem and impossible to deal with in a paragraph or two. it also makes for fascinating reading.

Criminology is a study of crime and can't be confused with what appropriate punishment the law states.
if u want to debate this issue you r welcome to contant me

Answer 5

It depends if they show signs of remorse and explain their actions in great detail but even then it should be years before stuff like that starts heppening. Sometimes it may be commited under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol and a year or two down the line they realise what they have done.

It is a very difficult topic.

Answer 6

What good is revenge? It's a carnal instinct, to be sure, and, in reality, it never does any good.

A man has killed another man, and it bothers him, and makes others distraught. Do we torture him to placate other people, or do we give him the treatment he needs? What is of more value to civilization: a rehabilitated citizen, or a handful of temporarily satisfied grieving family members and another carcass rotting in prison?

Answer 7

I don't care either way, if its cost effective to treat them, sure why not. But if we have the cash to counsel them then why not just do the job properly and execute them, they could be made into cat food, this would be free to old ladies and thus serve the community for their wrong doings.

This way everybody wins

Answer 8

I think that we need to know what makes these people do what they do, but to helping them I`m not sure. The family and friends of the person murdered get little help and have to live with the knowledge that their loved one was taken away in such violent circumstances.

Answer 9

sometimes a flash of temper leads to a lifetime of true regret,but some murders are premeditated and in these cases,no release for them to rpeat it ,in cases of crimes of passion,a quick loss of temper and where there is little chance of it happenning again,sure counselling is a good thing,some people eare behind bars because they actually enjoy killing and inflicting pain,lethal injection in these cases,why feed the vermin

Answer 10

not if treatment is taking more of our tax dollars..with all the perks inmates get in prison i'm surprised some people aren't beating down the doors to get in ....especially if you're trying to make it living in california!