Radical Justice or Common Sense...?

Question

It apparently cost the American taxpayer $2,000,000,000 to inprison sex offenders every year. Therefore it has been reported that a solution to this problem is to castrate these perverts.
Do you think this is a risky venture, and would it not be just as cost effective and less risky to just hang them?

It seems, and quite rightly, that I was not specific enough in my definition of a sex offender. Where to begin?, well I have to agree with a vast majority of you in that the punishment should fit the crime, and whilst I think any sane individual would agree, the death penalty for 'peeping toms' is probably a bit extreme, a sex offender is perhaps what it suggests, an individual who has commited a sexual crime against an individual (peadophilles shouldn't be placed in this catergory as they should be no argument against execution).

Answer 1

I agree- When you consider someone whose committed an offence such as this you should ask yourself ...what would they be able to give back to society in a productive way. If the answer is gonna be .. Well nothing but heart ache. mental illness. and life long stress and depression for the people who come in to contact with them. Then YES the best answer would be to KILL them as soon as possible.

Answer 2

Unfortunately castration is not the answer, for the simple reason that it has been shown that it does not prevent the deviant behavior. (I would imagine that it does make it a little more difficult, though) I heard about this when a sex offender in my state WANTED to be castrated. He was denied his request because of the lack of effectiveness.

As far as the death penalty for sex offenders? I like the idea. I do not think that it has been shown that the really bad cases can be rehabilitated. (Please point me in the right direction for the research on the subject if I am wrong.) But of course the way the legal system is, it is very costly to give someone the death penalty.

Honestly, I think the idea of a penal colony might be effective. Put the worst cases in an area where they can live a fairly normal life, but just without exposure to children or women. Spending their lives in eternal frustration might be the worst punishment that is practical.

Answer 3

The trouble is who do you class as sex offender - in UK this runs from men who expose themselves to those who commit serious offences against women and children.

Also there is the idea of rehabilitation. It works for some, and therefore it is less costly to put those offenders likely to change their attitudes through a programme than to jail them. I know of a family where the father was jailed for the abuse of his daughter, who was taken back into the family. He is not allowed to be alone with children and the neighbours all know what he has done. He knows if he hangs around the school, or approaches a child, it will get back to the family and they will involve the police.

Sexual crimes against children are often committed by those who have been abused themselves - often with the tacit or explicit knowledge of family members, and by children placed in care supposedly for their own safety. These are children often failed by society at large, so do we complete the process by hanging them?

Last and not least are the falsely accused. This is a common ruse used by vindictive spouses of either sex in custody battles and sometimes it works.

For those intractable offenders, electronic tagging and castration (chemical or otherwise) might be an option - but hanging, never.

Answer 4

we used to talk this wa about sodomites but sodomy was so popular among the great and the good they legalised it, likewise, child porne is also becoming popular among the great and the good. adultery is the next sin to murder in the ten commadments, but that has been popular for years, dosent mean its right though when all the perverts have been done away with who do we go after then, murderers, maybe
but if we rid the world of all its sin, the last man standing will have to shoot himself. because the last perfect individual is
not around in the normal sence of the word, and he did say vengeance is mine.

Answer 5

Could you be a little more specific when you say sex offender? Do you mean child molestor or rapists or just sickos looking throught peepholes in dressing rooms. Maybe you mean sex offenders as a whole. If so then no.

Answer 6

Both... I would like to see a harsher and more effective punishment, but it will NEVER happen in America, because it is Radical