Re:Treatment of Sexual Offenders

I don't think you thought you statement through very well before you posted it here. The family is a part of society, so what happens within or is accepted within that particular family, becomes considered the social "norm" for that segment of society.

To refute your statement of intense and early childhood "injury" (I'm assuming you mean abuse), I have found that in 80% of the sex offense cases I have interveiwed the offender or studied the cases of have not had such experiences. Most lead a normal childhood, perhaps the largest item I see standing out, was in most cases was a dominanting parent. For some it is a simple erosion of ethics, to a need for power and control over others.

I would suggest reading some of Yolchelson, Samenow and Adlers work with sex offenders. All three of them have brought forth lines of thought that have lead to developing therapy to treat some of these individuals. Although there seems to be a high rate of ricividisim amongst those that have themselves been victims and those that were long time offenders, some very good results developed from these studies.

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