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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Mr. Ferrenburg also messed up on his use of “sexual predator”. He was referring to “sexually violent predator”.
FYI…
Most Journalists are members of The Society of Professional Journalists, spj.org, and ACCEPT SPJ’s Code of Ethics…Obviously, this ‘Rocky’, who is NO Rocky Balboa, failed in his attempt to Properly report the FACTS which means he NEVER did his due diligence that a professional journalist would have performed prior to print!
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/skinner-v-oklahoma-1942
Chemical castration is simular to the sterilization in Skinner v Oklahoma and is unconstitutional.
All he had to do was read his own source.
If you click on the link at the word recidivism in the article and scroll down the referenced document it states, “People who served sentences for sex offenses were much less likely to be rearrested for another sex offense (7.7%) ………” The 67% number is for all crimes that might land a RSO back in jail.
How hard is this to do.
These reports, though, do take a certain intelligence level to understand. I have to reread them several times, putting all the different parts together to fully understand what the research is saying. It also takes a little bit of a mathematical mind to draw correct conclusions from these reports. I think people, such as this author, have preconceived conclusions and are quickly “grasping at straws” to find “data” to back up their incorrect conclusions.
Isn’t chemical castration contradictory to sex offender laws?
Think about it.
The process of chemical castration involves using a chemical that blocks production of testosterone and increases the production of estrogen.
This is the very same process used in performing a sex changes.
And sex offenders are (last i was aware) prohibited from receiving sex change procedures.
Aren’t these contradicting laws?
Using the law to force someone to break a law.
What? A reasonable argument? Get out of here. 🤣👍
May as well get full blown barbaric and lop off the hands of thieves.
Ok, so we all know that when it comes to articles mentioning “human rights” and “consent” when speaking about punishment for those with sexual offenses, the masses will respond with “What about the rights and consent of the victims?”
How do you reply to those types of comments?
This is a civilized country. All castration would do is lead to the person being castrated being vengeful and that person would most likely wind up doing something of a more serious nature as a way to vent his/her frustration!
I would have to disagree. America used to be a country that stood on the moral high ground. But today our country condones the forced homelessness to hundreds of American citizens in Miami, all for the almighty dollar. We force people into plea bargains by threatening them and their families, rather than drop cases that are weak in evidence or has no evidence. We punish some people for life and choose to incarcerate others for life even when their time is served, because of what we think they could do. We have militarized our police force so they see us as enemies rather than American citizens who made mistakes. Our Federal government forces states to adopt harsh sex offender laws by threatening to remove federal assistance. Rather than violate the laws of Justice, we used to err on the side of caution. Yet just this week another man was released from Death Row in Florida after being found not guilty by DNA. Death row! Not probation or some registry, but death row.
Our justice system is now run by prosecutors who want to become judges and politicians who want reelection, rather than by officers of the court who care about the law and the American justice system. We no longer care about protecting the innocent and prosecuting the guilty in a fair and balanced way. We have become Nimby’s who cry “Kill em all and let God sort them out” by our very own actions. Our country has lost its way, and I’m afraid we will never get it back.
I am not someone who hates America. I am an American, born in the United States, a war vet who served in the military, and a citizen who has lived and worked in foreign countries, some third world. I used to feel sorry for some of those countries when I saw them against my own. Now we are no different, and I might argue, worse than those I used to pity.
America is not civilized. We have Registries. And it wasn’t all that long ago that we had segregation. And on and on.
We like to think we are civilized. But nope.