Calling people who
commit sex crimes “incurable” gives us no reason to change. It gives us no
hope.
Good luck reducing
sexual abuse with that one.
Good luck with the
prison, probation, parole, police, and survivor-help budgets too.
The Incurable
Dogma is responsible for the laws keeping many of those convicted of sex crimes
on probation, the sex offender registry, or both, for life. After all, if you cannot
be cured, the government is going to have to keep an eye on you forever, and prohibit
you from certain housing, jobs, and movement. And once convicted, politicians
are free to violate your civil rights, because most voters agree you cannot be cured.
Good luck keeping law-enforcement
and probation and parole budgets down with that one. Just please don’t complain
about the money spent to keep down vigilante attacks against us. You might
consider, though, that researchers agree that no reliable studies show any reduction
in crime from these laws.
Good luck with welfare
budgets too, since the laws, predictably, create homeless, jobless people who
lack social support and resent being singled out for cruel and unusual punishments,
all of those people in need of help. Could joblessness,
homelessness, resentment, and lack of support make former sex offenders more
likely to commit new crimes too?
Since most of the
re-arrests of former sex offenders are for probation/parole and registry violations,
not sex crimes, you’re really going
to have to work to keep those prison budgets down. Not to mention county jails,
state hospitals, and probation and parole departments.
We’ll “always be a
risk,” is what the “experts” say. They don’t like to explain why. The why is
that we have choices, making us unpredictable—but we can also choose to stop
committing sex crimes, and that choice is as good as a cure.
Still, some people
do benefit from the Incurable Dogma. For example, “expert” therapists who get lucrative
government contracts are justified by the Incurable Dogma in making money off people in
therapy forever.
Big surprise that the
psychological “experts” are the ones most responsible for spreading the
Incurable Dogma. And big surprise that most of these “experts” aren’t stopped
by the fact that people who commit sex crimes have the second lowest rate of re-offense
out of the eight major categories of offenders, according to the Bureau of
Justice Statistics.
Yeah, big surprise
so many people like me got sexually abused when we were children.
