Discussion

Psychologists, criminologists, private people, and the government discuss the most acceptable way to deal with sexual offenders. The alternatives open to imprisoned sex criminals include life sentence, civil involvement, psychiatric treatment, and psychiatric therapy. Probably the field most focused on psychiatry and criminology is the issue of whether treating sex criminals is effective. Over the last 15 to 20 years, interventions have been thriving, including neighborhood notification, the registration of sex offenders, and advanced recovery programs in correctional and mental health, but programs to successful intervention and alleviate recurrence have proved less successful. Particularly among the leading experts in the field of sex offender studies, this topic is still controversial. Some assume, on the one hand, that it is useful to treat sex criminals. The treatment of sex criminals is separate from other convicted criminal offenders. Treatment for those who have committed sexual offenses is a profound and encouraging mechanism that relies on the learning and transparency of expert techniques to avoid abuses and take responsibility for harm done. Treatment dramatically decreases the potential risk of sexual exploitation of a victim for the vast number of adults and young people who have been involved in sexual violence. Treatment is not directed at intimidating or humbling participants or providing amnesty, the justification for violent acts.