Great Debate

In June the beginning of a debate about the sentencing of sex offenders. A man named Paul Webster 40 your old was sentencet to life in January but was eligible to apply for Parole after six years. His accolplice, Tanya French 19 year old was jailed for five years. They raped a 12 month baby and took potograghs, of the abuse. Paul had been convicted of a serious assault on a 14 year old girl three years befor he was sintenced for the baby rape offences.

1. The offender pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, so the judge was required to reduce the prison sentence by one-third, bringing the tariff down to 12 years.
2. The offender is allowed to apply for parole after serving half of the sentence, bringing it down to six years.
3. The offender is entitled to ask for the time he spent on remand to count towards his sentence and the judge had no grounds to refuse this, bringing it down to five and a bit years.(teachingexpertise.com)

The Debate of Treatment!

Should we give treatment to sex offenders or should we not?

Yes we should because, Juveniles respond very positively to treatment. Psychological counseling is expensive, but not as espensive as prison. Building a new prison cell is about $55,000 it would be around $22,000 a year just to supervised probation. A treatment may cost between $5,000 and $15,000 per year. One year of treatment well cost way less then a year of prison. Some people think its the its good to try to help sex offenders! (find.galegroupe.com)

No we should not give treatment beause it realy doesnt help. 15 percent of convicted sex offenders are caught reoffending after years later, they are driven by sexul interests. Dr. Hanson's research showes various studies had shown that "most treatments dont work very well." All treatments had a modest beneficial effect. Dr. Hanson's found that 12 percent of offendres who got treatment were caught committing new sex crimes. Researchers have found that chemical castration, or using hormonal drugs to curb sexual appetitd can be Problecatice. Some docters see more potential in Antidepressant drugs. Mr. Carlin said "Most of those guys, They're just wating to get released so they can go right back to what they were doing." Thats the reason they fet treatment.