Imprison Chronic Sexual Sadists for Life (From Child Abuse: Opposing Viewpoints, P 262-266, 1994, David Bender and Bruno Leone, eds. -- See NCJ-159823)

• NCJ Number: 159855
• Author(s): A Vachss
• Date Published: 1994
• Length: 5 pages
• Sale Source: Greenhaven Press
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Opposing Viewpoints Series

Annotation

Because lack of socialization keeps chronic sexual sadists from feeling empathy toward their victims and rehabilitation is not possible, life imprisonment is the only option for certain sex offenders.

Abstract

Some predatory psychopaths can be deterred but they cannot rehabilitated. The concept of coercive therapy is a contradiction; successful psychiatric treatment requires participants, not mere recipients. What makes chronic sexual predators so intractable and dangerous is that they like what they do and intend to keep doing it. Psychiatric treatment may hurt more than it helps these predators, especially since they have contempt for society and the need for them to seek higher levels of stimulation thwarts rehabilitation. Since the death penalty and castration are not suggested for chronic sexual predators, the straightforward solution of imprisonment without parole is strongly recommended for certain sex crimes.