The chemicals they use in The Netherlands, for example, decrease the sex drive.
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 21/04/2010 05:26:58 PM
The effect, therefore, is that paedophiles no longer feel the (same) urge to commit those acts.
The purpose is to give time for rehabilitation. Obviously this won't work in all cases, but it works in enough of them (something like 80% from the documentary I watched) to make it worthwhile treatment.
The need to keep taking it for as long as treatment progresses ensures that there is regular contact with offenders and a good way to keep tabs on them.
It's not 100% effective, but I think it's a great alternative to the system we have now (which is definitely not working). The trial in The Netherlands went very well, with very low rates of recidivism. (This was a television documentary I watched a few years ago, so I'm sorry that I cannot provide a link.)
I agree with the reservation that it should (at least initially, till we have stronger data) be voluntary. But in time I can see it becoming a compulsory treatment.
The purpose is to give time for rehabilitation. Obviously this won't work in all cases, but it works in enough of them (something like 80% from the documentary I watched) to make it worthwhile treatment.
The need to keep taking it for as long as treatment progresses ensures that there is regular contact with offenders and a good way to keep tabs on them.
It's not 100% effective, but I think it's a great alternative to the system we have now (which is definitely not working). The trial in The Netherlands went very well, with very low rates of recidivism. (This was a television documentary I watched a few years ago, so I'm sorry that I cannot provide a link.)
I agree with the reservation that it should (at least initially, till we have stronger data) be voluntary. But in time I can see it becoming a compulsory treatment.
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Castration of paedophiles
- 21/04/2010 11:44:03 AM
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Hmm
- 21/04/2010 12:04:45 PM
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More or less agree
- 21/04/2010 05:20:43 PM
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The chemicals they use in The Netherlands, for example, decrease the sex drive.
- 21/04/2010 05:26:58 PM
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Calling it "castration" makes it sound a million times worse than it actually is.
- 21/04/2010 12:44:30 PM
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One quick response: Alan Turing
- 21/04/2010 03:43:33 PM
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Are they really using the same chemicals as in 1952?
- 21/04/2010 04:40:30 PM
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You'll have problems finding medicines that don't have any risks associated with them... *NM*
- 21/04/2010 05:26:11 PM
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If they won't let us just shot them then cutting thier balls off will have to do
- 21/04/2010 03:24:22 PM
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Yeah... no. *NM*
- 21/04/2010 04:06:57 PM
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Why are you against this? *NM*
- 21/04/2010 06:54:20 PM
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First, because I don't knee-jerk to BURN IN HELL FOREVERRRRR whenever I see "pedophile"
- 21/04/2010 07:28:34 PM
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Although I'm not a psychologist
- 21/04/2010 11:29:04 PM
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No...just kill them *NM*
- 22/04/2010 04:44:47 AM
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I'm with you Mook.
- 22/04/2010 05:08:46 AM
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Well, that's kind of the point, right?
- 22/04/2010 06:50:11 AM
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I also agree.
- 22/04/2010 01:15:50 PM
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It will keep them from hurting more children *NM*
- 22/04/2010 01:53:23 PM
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there are many ways to accomplish that.
- 22/04/2010 03:10:02 PM
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you can make any argument sound absurd if that is goal
- 22/04/2010 05:07:56 PM
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You misunderstood my logic.
- 22/04/2010 05:11:30 PM
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