Should the United States Use Chemical Castration For Sex Offenders?
[FAC NOTE] Would someone please correct this hack reporter who writes, “However, sex offenders reoffend 67% of the time”? The rest of the article is informative, but that harmfully WRONG statistic is glaring.
The term “castration” brings a chill to every man. The idea of having your ‘junk’ cut off is horrifying. It’s barbaric. Castration is like the archaic practice of locking someone in stocks or something that would be seen in a third world country, but not the United States But it’s not. It is used in our modern world, including America. Not only do many other countries have castration laws, but several of our states do as well. Even as recent as last year, states have been approving the chemical castration of sexual predators. But what is chemical castration and how does it work?
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This is cruel and unusaul punishment in violation of the US Constitution’s 8th Amendment. Anyone who argues otherwise should familiarize themselves with the true story of World War II code-breaker named Alan Turing. He was the leader of the team that cracked the German Enigma code. Turing, who, in addition to being a genius codebreaker and inventor of an early prototype computer, was also gay. Being gay in back then was illegal, and Alan Turing was arrested and convicted of “gross indecency.” His punishment was, in lieu of prison, chemical castration. Within two years of the sentence, he died by cyanide poisoning; later ruled a suicide. His purported suicide has been disputed by his family and some historians. It may have actually been death by the chemicals used to castrate him.
I have been trying to correct this mistake since I first read this article yesterday morning. When I click on “comments” at the top, the website will not respond. Is anyone else having success with the comment section? Let me know if you find a way that I can get on.
In the meantime, I have gone to thelibertarianrepublic.com website and am contacting them there. I am also searching for a way to contact the author, Rocky Ferrenburg.
He is taking this info (incorrectly) from the DOJ’s May of 2019’s report on the recidivism rates of released inmates whose most serious offense was rape or sexual assault, which of course does not include ALL the different types of sex crimes for which a person can be arrested. This study was over a 9-years period. In addition, the 67% was an arrest of ANY type of crime and ONLY for an arrest — not necessarily a conviction. Just think of how many individuals Volusia and Polk Counties have added to this 67% for people who are not a threat to anyone.
I have been reading that this DOJ report, which is valuable research data for our cause, is being GROSSLY misused by many sources, including this article.
The authors of articles like this should be stripped of there authority to write and publish such garbage. Why is chemical castration even an option when the side effects are so horrible that physical castration is more humane. He pulls out statistics like numbers out of a bingo game and uses them like he knows what he’s talking about.
I’m not a Trump supporter ,but he popularized the expression “ fake news” here we have a perfect example. It should be legal to sue for such blatant misrepresentation of facts.
I went to the article and can’t find anywhere to leave a comment or send a message to the author.
The hyperlink for the 67% recidivism rate referenced in the article connects to a study discussed at https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2019/06/06/sexoffenses/
This study actually says the opposite of what the author quoted (see below for the full text). The author of this article either completely misunderstood or intentionally distorted the statistics he referenced.
“Less than 67% of those who served time for rape or sexual assault were rearrested for any offense, making rearrest 20% less likely for this group than all other offense categories combined (84%). Only those who served time for homicide had a lower rate of rearrest (60%).
People who served sentences for sex offenses were much less likely to be rearrested for another sex offense (7.7%) than for a property (24%), drug (18.5%), or public order (59%) offense (a category which includes probation and parole violations).
Only half of those who served sentences for rape or sexual assault had a new arrest that led to a conviction (for any offense), compared to 69% of everyone released in 2005 (in the 29 states with data).”
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He actually sourced that statistic, but either interpreted the graph incorrectly or knowingly misrepresented it.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2019/06/06/sexoffenses/
The graphic provides data on recidivism rates broken down by original offense categories. What the author misses is that it is a rearrest (and not even a conviction) for ANY OTHER CRIME, not necessarily the same one. As we all kn ow, this could be for any number of things, including parole or supervision violations. He also fails to mention that recidivism rate for sex offenses is actually the LOWEST among those listed. That kind of leads me to believe it was more of an intentional misrepresentation.
Yes, because renaming it just makes it better, what a complete load of crap. Humanity is it’s own worse enemy, and this just goes to show how fiendish these people really are, as they are perfectly fine with violating human rights hence becoming a form of offender themselves.