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Civil commitment for sex offenders [Guardian]

Thanx to andrewducker

Comments

[weofodthignen]

Good for Washington, so far as it goes. Swift death would be better,and I'm sorry they feel they have to make it so expensive to the people of the state.

Victims have to be incredibly brave and overcome a fantastic amount of institutional inertia, even hostility, to report and get a conviction; no wonder official reoffense rates are low. And those guys are not exercising in a prison yard once a day: look at them in a rec room and at a picnic table. No, I'm not sorry for habitual rapists.

[snippy]

Miner points out that sex offenders have a relatively low reoffense rate. That we know of! We also know that many sexual assaults never get reported; that the ones that are reported don't get investigated.

[minoanmiss]

Considering how many sexual assault victims are abandoned by families, friends, and communities... plus, this seems a better solution than making it impossible for sex offenders to live anywhere with neighborhood reportage and 1000-foot distances. No risk of vigilanteeism, no living under a bridge, just a comfortable community far from potential victims.

"Low repeat rates"?! Does that take into account the low reportage rates? I want to read a couple of those studies.