re: #360 Aceofwhat?

Perhaps the watch system should be part of the sentence, then? Because i agree with Iceweasel wholeheartedly.

Yes. We need to treat sex offenders differently than we do other offenders.
The current system doesn’t let us— it treats sex offenses on a par with say, stealing, or any other crime.

But we know these people are a separate category of offender.
We know their recidivism rates are incredibly high. We know they can’t be cured.
And we know that even chemical castration doesn’t work.
We know that they’ll compulsively reoffend— and they don’t mind changing their targeted victim group (female children, whatever) in order to elude detection.

We know all this, and yet, we treat them like every other offender— that is to say, the idea that if they’ve served their time they have to be given a blank slate, they’ve paid their debt.

But none of it’s true. We need to just cut them out from all other categories of offense, acknowledge that we’re creating a new category, and create laws and regulations that acknowledge their special status.
The science is there, has been for a long time. The empirical proof about their behaviour upon release. We should just give sex crimes a special status and punish those who commit them accordingly.