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	Comments on: Psychology Today: Do Sex Offenders Have A Mental Illness?	</title>
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		By: kathy bowen fisher		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-2/#comment-32827</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kathy bowen fisher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 02:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[unfortunately the title sex offender is a broad statement about a person and his/her legal issues, the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of the sexual offender who is by neurotransmitter or impulsive behavior  a sexual offender is a medical issue.  The  legal issues put the highest number of the population  into the sex offender label. There fore secondary to the sex offender label comes the most diagnosis-able issues of the sex offender. The depression, anxiety, poor self worth and esteem along with restrictions to a normal lifestyle.   This population is taken advantage of a mistreated by many employers, family member, community magistrates, sheriffs, law officers etc. Continue to work to have a voice,]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>unfortunately the title sex offender is a broad statement about a person and his/her legal issues, the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of the sexual offender who is by neurotransmitter or impulsive behavior  a sexual offender is a medical issue.  The  legal issues put the highest number of the population  into the sex offender label. There fore secondary to the sex offender label comes the most diagnosis-able issues of the sex offender. The depression, anxiety, poor self worth and esteem along with restrictions to a normal lifestyle.   This population is taken advantage of a mistreated by many employers, family member, community magistrates, sheriffs, law officers etc. Continue to work to have a voice,</p>
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		By: TheTruthHurts		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-2/#comment-32826</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TheTruthHurts]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 09:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, the, &#039;THING&#039; that wrote this article is both a psyche and a lawyer!

Wow, this &#039;THING&#039;, as I am unable to identify its gender, really must be able to predict the future!..Wow....so, if this &#039;THING&#039; can predict the future, lets pull all our monies and hire this &#039;THING&#039; to invest in markets and make a 1000% of financial return!

Remember, as someone has previously stated, Psyche Today is a Grocery Store Tabloid piece of crap!  It has NO redeeming value!  Just a lot of wasted paper and trees that were cut down to publish this &#039;THINGS&#039; personal toilet paper!

Stay Safe and Healthy!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the, &#8216;THING&#8217; that wrote this article is both a psyche and a lawyer!</p>
<p>Wow, this &#8216;THING&#8217;, as I am unable to identify its gender, really must be able to predict the future!..Wow&#8230;.so, if this &#8216;THING&#8217; can predict the future, lets pull all our monies and hire this &#8216;THING&#8217; to invest in markets and make a 1000% of financial return!</p>
<p>Remember, as someone has previously stated, Psyche Today is a Grocery Store Tabloid piece of crap!  It has NO redeeming value!  Just a lot of wasted paper and trees that were cut down to publish this &#8216;THINGS&#8217; personal toilet paper!</p>
<p>Stay Safe and Healthy!</p>
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		By: Dustin		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-2/#comment-32825</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dustin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 19:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Completely overlooked is that the law considers a person perfectly sane at the time an offense was committed, absent &lt;strong&gt;proof&lt;/strong&gt; to the contrary. It&#039;s not until a person is released that the court considers the offender in need of &quot;treatment&quot;, evidenced by the crime committed, even though the person was perfectly sane at the time (as verified by the court before trial/plea hearing and at sentencing).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Completely overlooked is that the law considers a person perfectly sane at the time an offense was committed, absent <strong>proof</strong> to the contrary. It&#8217;s not until a person is released that the court considers the offender in need of &#8220;treatment&#8221;, evidenced by the crime committed, even though the person was perfectly sane at the time (as verified by the court before trial/plea hearing and at sentencing).</p>
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		By: JZ		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-2/#comment-32824</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JZ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, in many cases, it&#039;s the so-called &quot;judge&quot; that slaps the &quot;pedophile&quot; label on a person at sentencing. Following this logic, since pedophilia is a mental illness recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, where&#039;s my SSI disability check!

https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pedophilic-disorder-dsm--5-302.2-(f65.4)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, in many cases, it&#8217;s the so-called &#8220;judge&#8221; that slaps the &#8220;pedophile&#8221; label on a person at sentencing. Following this logic, since pedophilia is a mental illness recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, where&#8217;s my SSI disability check!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pedophilic-disorder-dsm--5-302.2-(f65.4)" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pedophilic-disorder-dsm&#8211;5-302.2-(f65.4)</a></p>
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		By: Robert		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32823</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 17:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32818&quot;&gt;Media&lt;/a&gt;.

People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks at each other, for the obvious reason. Or in the words of Jesus, &quot;he/she that is without sin, let him/her cast the first stone.&quot; That being said, maybe being a  public servant of any kind may not be such a good idea. It is similar to the &#039;shooting the elephant&#039; (by Gorge Orwell) or &#039;mob mentally&#039; syndrome where one participates or be victimized or ostracized. In most cases, if not all, those who judge and condemn others for perceived &#039;faux pas&#039; or &#039;crimes&#039; do the same or if not, worse. He who sits on the THRONE of all thrones declares; &quot;I AM not mocked, for whatsoever he/she  sows, he/she shall reap.&quot; How many men/women are on the &#039;INSORNA&#039; for what that &#039;AG&#039; of Indiana only received a 30-day suspension for.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32818">Media</a>.</p>
<p>People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks at each other, for the obvious reason. Or in the words of Jesus, &#8220;he/she that is without sin, let him/her cast the first stone.&#8221; That being said, maybe being a  public servant of any kind may not be such a good idea. It is similar to the &#8216;shooting the elephant&#8217; (by Gorge Orwell) or &#8216;mob mentally&#8217; syndrome where one participates or be victimized or ostracized. In most cases, if not all, those who judge and condemn others for perceived &#8216;faux pas&#8217; or &#8216;crimes&#8217; do the same or if not, worse. He who sits on the THRONE of all thrones declares; &#8220;I AM not mocked, for whatsoever he/she  sows, he/she shall reap.&#8221; How many men/women are on the &#8216;INSORNA&#8217; for what that &#8216;AG&#8217; of Indiana only received a 30-day suspension for.</p>
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		By: Sex Offender Truth		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32822</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sex Offender Truth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 17:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Psychology Today is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; a professional journal nor marketed to professionals. It is a &lt;strong&gt;pop psychology rag&lt;/strong&gt; whose target audience is women and the quality of the information is ZERO.

Sadly, dumbed down info such as &lt;strong&gt;the garbage published&lt;/strong&gt; in this joke are the only thing that people seem to be able to understand these days (thank you social media) so once this &lt;strong&gt;misinformation and/or outright lies&lt;/strong&gt; is published they are taken a &quot;facts&quot; - which they are most certainly are NOT.

That &lt;strong&gt;propaganda&lt;/strong&gt; filled rag is placed right at the checkout lane in the grocery store next to those other fact filled journals of Americana such as &lt;strong&gt;People magazine and the National Inquirer&lt;/strong&gt;!

Pathetic]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psychology Today is <strong>NOT</strong> a professional journal nor marketed to professionals. It is a <strong>pop psychology rag</strong> whose target audience is women and the quality of the information is ZERO.</p>
<p>Sadly, dumbed down info such as <strong>the garbage published</strong> in this joke are the only thing that people seem to be able to understand these days (thank you social media) so once this <strong>misinformation and/or outright lies</strong> is published they are taken a &#8220;facts&#8221; &#8211; which they are most certainly are NOT.</p>
<p>That <strong>propaganda</strong> filled rag is placed right at the checkout lane in the grocery store next to those other fact filled journals of Americana such as <strong>People magazine and the National Inquirer</strong>!</p>
<p>Pathetic</p>
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		By: Maestro		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32821</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maestro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 15:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do sex offenders have mental illness?
Gee, I dunno, let’s look at what gets classified as a “sexual offense” to land people on the registry and then ask the people who are asking:

•Public urination
•Teen sexting
•Teens getting caught having sex in a (somewhat) public place like the back seat of a car.
•Young adults getting caught having sex in a (somewhat) public place like the back seat of a car.
•Someone over 18 (attempting without coercion) having a relationship with a person who happens to fall under a specific state’s age of consent but in another state would not have been illegal.
•Ass-grabbing at night/dance clubs.
•Indecent exposure if you’re outside in your backyard and the wind blows your robe open.

Gee, I wonder also: Do sex offenders have mental illness? Hmmm. 
Perhaps we, as a society and as reporters for news, need to stop assuming that the words “sex offender” refer to child molestation/rape. How about that? Can we do that? No? Didn’t think so. It’s against their narrative to fear monger.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do sex offenders have mental illness?<br />
Gee, I dunno, let’s look at what gets classified as a “sexual offense” to land people on the registry and then ask the people who are asking:</p>
<p>•Public urination<br />
•Teen sexting<br />
•Teens getting caught having sex in a (somewhat) public place like the back seat of a car.<br />
•Young adults getting caught having sex in a (somewhat) public place like the back seat of a car.<br />
•Someone over 18 (attempting without coercion) having a relationship with a person who happens to fall under a specific state’s age of consent but in another state would not have been illegal.<br />
•Ass-grabbing at night/dance clubs.<br />
•Indecent exposure if you’re outside in your backyard and the wind blows your robe open.</p>
<p>Gee, I wonder also: Do sex offenders have mental illness? Hmmm.<br />
Perhaps we, as a society and as reporters for news, need to stop assuming that the words “sex offender” refer to child molestation/rape. How about that? Can we do that? No? Didn’t think so. It’s against their narrative to fear monger.</p>
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		By: Jacob		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32820</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 14:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Counterpoint:

‘Sex Offenders Often Do Not Have a Treatable Mental Illness.’

Many sexual predator statutes refer generically to people convicted of sex offenses as having a mental illness.  However, these special commitment laws were created in part because the persons who are confined under them do not meet the definition of mental illness used in the ordinary civil commitment laws of any of the fifty states. [4]  Indeed, the definition of mental illnesses (or more commonly “mental disorders”) used in sexual predator statutes are completely circular in that they define the disorder as the tendency to commit sex crimes.[5]  Finally, to the extent that sex offenders have a mental illness at all, it is not one that can be treated under our current understanding and available evidence.[6] Thus, mental health professionals have difficulty determining which sex offenders are likely to be dangerous if not committed and what if any treatment should be provided.  This means that courts, which must rely on professional expertise, will regularly make mistakes in deciding who should be committed or released, with serious consequences for both the public and the offender.  Additionally, many sex offenders are reluctant to participate in treatment because the information which they reveal in treatment is used to prevent their release.

This was already addressed three years ago, with supporting footnotes, but Psychology Today contributors must assume that its readers are too lazy to conduct a google search:

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/position-statement-55-confining-sexual-predators-mental-health-system (Bullet 2)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Counterpoint:</p>
<p>‘Sex Offenders Often Do Not Have a Treatable Mental Illness.’</p>
<p>Many sexual predator statutes refer generically to people convicted of sex offenses as having a mental illness.  However, these special commitment laws were created in part because the persons who are confined under them do not meet the definition of mental illness used in the ordinary civil commitment laws of any of the fifty states. [4]  Indeed, the definition of mental illnesses (or more commonly “mental disorders”) used in sexual predator statutes are completely circular in that they define the disorder as the tendency to commit sex crimes.[5]  Finally, to the extent that sex offenders have a mental illness at all, it is not one that can be treated under our current understanding and available evidence.[6] Thus, mental health professionals have difficulty determining which sex offenders are likely to be dangerous if not committed and what if any treatment should be provided.  This means that courts, which must rely on professional expertise, will regularly make mistakes in deciding who should be committed or released, with serious consequences for both the public and the offender.  Additionally, many sex offenders are reluctant to participate in treatment because the information which they reveal in treatment is used to prevent their release.</p>
<p>This was already addressed three years ago, with supporting footnotes, but Psychology Today contributors must assume that its readers are too lazy to conduct a google search:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mhanational.org/issues/position-statement-55-confining-sexual-predators-mental-health-system" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.mhanational.org/issues/position-statement-55-confining-sexual-predators-mental-health-system</a> (Bullet 2)</p>
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		By: Media		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32819</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Media]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 14:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32818&quot;&gt;Media&lt;/a&gt;.

My above link will only open up if you have a Facebook account.  This one might work better:

https://apnews.com/b61f619633f25a35b167e396c5d27d3e]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32818">Media</a>.</p>
<p>My above link will only open up if you have a Facebook account.  This one might work better:</p>
<p><a href="https://apnews.com/b61f619633f25a35b167e396c5d27d3e" rel="nofollow ugc">https://apnews.com/b61f619633f25a35b167e396c5d27d3e</a></p>
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		By: Media		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/psychology-today-do-sex-offenders-have-a-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-32818</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Media]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 14:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do people who have committed a past sex offense also have a mental illness?  If so, then the state of Indiana has an Attorney General who needs to seek some professional counseling:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/curtis-hill-indiana-attorney-general.html?auth=login-facebook

His punishment:  law license suspended for 30 days and no placement on the registry.  What would the sentence have been for one of us in the state of Florida?  Yes, there might be more charges coming later, but a man who has put many in prison for sex offenses gets to walk away pretty much unscathed.  I personally feel he deserves some consequences, but not prison time or to be placed on the registry.  In Florida he could be looking at both.

I did read in the Psychology Today article posted at this FAC website that Illinois does not require federal sex offender registry mandates, so Illinois must be a decent state in which to live.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do people who have committed a past sex offense also have a mental illness?  If so, then the state of Indiana has an Attorney General who needs to seek some professional counseling:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/curtis-hill-indiana-attorney-general.html?auth=login-facebook" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/curtis-hill-indiana-attorney-general.html?auth=login-facebook</a></p>
<p>His punishment:  law license suspended for 30 days and no placement on the registry.  What would the sentence have been for one of us in the state of Florida?  Yes, there might be more charges coming later, but a man who has put many in prison for sex offenses gets to walk away pretty much unscathed.  I personally feel he deserves some consequences, but not prison time or to be placed on the registry.  In Florida he could be looking at both.</p>
<p>I did read in the Psychology Today article posted at this FAC website that Illinois does not require federal sex offender registry mandates, so Illinois must be a decent state in which to live.</p>
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