Help for Sex Offenders; Ministers Must Close the Counselling Loophole
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rape is grotesque. It is the quick, violent moment that fuses power and sex to the devastation of its victim. It is like a bomb that detonates within the soul of the assaulted, destroying that person's sense of worth and identity. Many recover, but none should have to experience the barbarity of it in the first place. Yet in all parts of this country, cluster bombs of male dysfunction explode with a gruesome predictability.
Given the frequency of rape and indecency, you might think a developed society had a considered way of tackling sex crimes. Punishment alone doesn't seem to work. The rate of recidivism for sex offenders is among the highest for any crime. We need to know such people are locked up, but we expect some attempt at therapy and rehabilitation, too. This is not just liberal good intentions at work. The evidence shows that counselling helps. At Peterhead's sex offenders unit, of the 170 prisoners to undergo therapy in 2002, only six have been reconvicted.See the full content of this document
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Help for Sex Offenders; Ministers Must Close the Counselling Loophole
We appear to recognise the need for the re-education of sex criminals and the figures suggest we are rather successful at it. A Scottish Execu...
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