Castration for sex offenders?

Castration is a terrible idea, i'd say it's worse than the death penalty.

Mistakes are made at times as well which makes these kinds of harsh punishments kinda iffy.
 
elmarko1234 said:
once a rapist has been let out & they wish to take the chemical castration option I fail to see how anybody is MORE at risk than if they are just simply let out.
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What kind of world do we live in where someone needs to get themselves castrated themselves to stop themselves raping? If you actually want to stop raping, then just, stop, you know, raping? :confused:

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Since when would castration stop them bieng a sex offender?

If we are talking about peodophilia, its more a mental disease than a physical ailment.

Castrating some one, does not help them mentally.

Yes they do immense wrong, but I personally dont belive they should be treated like modern day witches. They need psychiatric help, not a burning at the stake.
 
opethdisciple said:
Since when would castration stop them bieng a sex offender?

If we are talking about peodophilia, its more a mental disease than a physical ailment.

Castrating some one, does not help them mentally.

Yes they do immense wrong, but I personally dont belive they should be treated like modern day witches. They need psychiatric help, not a burning at the stake.
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Thats not entirely accurate. Issues such as depression, anxiety and compulsivity, which may be contributing factors to offending behaviour, can all be controlled with medication. Psychiatric help involves a combined pharmaceutical and psychological approach, probably involving cognitive behavioural therapy.

Arnie said:
What kind of world do we live in where someone needs to get themselves castrated themselves to stop themselves raping? If you actually want to stop raping, then just, stop, you know, raping? :confused:

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Which is like saying to the alcoholic dieing of liver failure 'hey man stop drinking' or to the smoker dieing of lung cancer 'yah know, those might be bad for you?'. Compulsive and addictive behaviours carry a price, and a person trying to tackle such issues on their own is probably more dangerous than a person being supported through it.
 
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opethdisciple said:
Since when would castration stop them bieng a sex offender?

If we are talking about peodophilia, its more a mental disease than a physical ailment.

Castrating some one, does not help them mentally.

Yes they do immense wrong, but I personally dont belive they should be treated like modern day witches. They need psychiatric help, not a burning at the stake.
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Voluntary chemical castration - "Evidence from Scandinavia suggests rates of reoffending have been cut to five per cent from more than 40 per cent"

It's providing a form of medication to reduce the urges of people with mental disorders, it's not exactly burning them at the stake.
 
Arnie said:
What kind of world do we live in where someone needs to get themselves castrated themselves to stop themselves raping? If you actually want to stop raping, then just, stop, you know, raping? :confused:

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You are trying to apply your own subjective personal experience to that of others (who most likely suffer from various mental disorders).

That is why you can't understand it.
 
Deadbeat said:
TIL that chemical castration is not a permanent procedure. Still, I think it'd stop rape - medical suppression of sex hormones would prevent sexual arousal, which would lead to an incapacity for 'rape', surely?
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Thereby creating serial killers who, unable to 'get it up' resort to murder and mutilation to get their thrills.
The Chaser - really good film (being remade staring mr dicaprio)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/
 
Hmm I can see your point.

dont think it would be correct however for lets say a first time peodophilia to get convicted and as punishment, they get their testicles removed. Thats an inappropriate response.

They need banging up yes, but they need counciling and psychiatric help.... and maybe after a few years of help, it could be see as a positive by THEM to be castrated, as they know that they want to be free from this disease, but no matter how much help they get they cant break free. they may volontarily choose the castration.

Although, it does pose a question. you castrate your self to free your mind from wrong, 9n the hope of realigning your self with the norms of society, hover once you are more in tunes with the norms of society, you cant date woman as you are castrated!
 
BunnyKillBot said:
Thereby creating serial killers who, unable to 'get it up' resort to murder and mutilation to get their thrills.
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Of course, there's the arguement that suppressing such powerfully psychoactive hormones like testosterone may drastically alter the dominance-centred mentality that accounts for non-sexually motivated abuse crimes.

But you're probably right. On the basis of zero evidence it seems most reasonable to me, your average mouth-breathing, tabloid-reading benefit stain, that biochemically preventing rapists from sexually assaulting people will inevitably spawn a huge increase in psychopathic serial killers.
 
In instances where the rape was proven without any doubt ie it was a violent rape or someone was held captive and raped or where the rapist was methodical and raped for numerous years ie teachers, doctors, priests etc. They should not be chemically castrated in so far as they should still have their desires but they should have their private parts surgically removed and destroyed.

But for date rape cases and minor rapes it would not be reasonable.
 
It's too good for them. They should be forced to hack the with a rusty pallet knife then eat them with with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
 
I don't know enough about how rapists' minds work, so I may be wrong, but I'd imagine some of them at least raped someone, not because of sexual urges, but from a psychological kick of some kinds, or having power over someone, etc.. If their motives were not purely physical then any kind of castration wont solve the problem, they'd just move onto other forms of abuse.
 
BunnyKillBot said:
Hello, 2008 wants its story back, and we already have this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...o-be-offered-form-of-chemical-castration.html
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The story in the OP is a recent article of reviews currently going on here in the Czech Republic, the "news" isn't related to the 2008 article and not the same story. The point was it doesn't matter if it's available in the UK or not, I was purely hoping to hear other people's views on here and create some sort of discussion.
 
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