Because “adult who commits sexual offenses” sounds so much better then “sex offender”. These people are insane.
I feel safer already. I was so worried about the self esteem of sexual deviants. That’s way more important than the lives of those they destroyed. The last thing I should want to do is hurt the feelings of child rapists. Giving them new names will help the healing and insertion back into society of those who deserve death.
“Those who control language control minds.” Ayn Rand
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>> You write: “Leaving aside the documented fact that most sex offenders will re-offend and rehabilitation is a waste of time, what could these people be thinking?”
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The change in labeling language seems pointless. So on that we agree.
But the article you cite in the language quoted above actually says the opposite of what you cite it for. I did some machine learning analysis of recidivism for offenses other than sex offenders a while back. So I actually read your article with some interest.
Regarding recidivism, I was surprised by these data in the article.
“While there are no recent, official statistics on national sex-offender recidivism, an overview of studies looking at the numbers in Connecticut, Alaska, Delaware, Iowa and South Carolina found that the rate is about 3.5% for sex offenders. That figure takes into account all crimes, including parole violations, not just sex crimes.”
By way of contrast, about 2/3 of jailed criminals will be rearrested within two years of release — that’s a 66% recidivism rate. (see https://harvardpolitics.com/recidivism-american-progress/ regarding the 2/3 figure). So sex offenders are much less likely to reoffend than the average incarcerated person.
Regarding the effect of therapy, the article you cited also suggests the opposite of what you cite it for. Here is the article:
“In 2010, research published in the American Journal of Public Health suggested that strict laws about registration, surveillance and residency can create a feeling of hopelessness and isolation that can actually facilitate re-offense. Several studies show that rehabilitative therapy, when paired with legal measures, can give offenders a sense of hope and progress and reduce recidivism rates by as much as 22%.”
SEX OFFENDERS CANNOT BE REHABILITATED
Colorado turned to drugs now perverts.
Nice, huh?
So sexual assaulters and pedos are the next victim group, eh?
I suppose they will be called Undocumented Boyfriends.
The new title should be “the late”.
As in the late Joseph Rosenbaum
that’s so mild, it’s almost polite...
““Adult who commits sexual offenses.” “
The problem, with that is that children who aren’t yet adults can be sex offenders.
Book mark under more insanity.
Deceased would be better.
Catholic Bishops were WAY too long committed to a dubious process of psychological and psychiatric evaluation, rehabilitation, and re-evaluation of consecrated priests with demonstrated or admitted histories of ephebophilia and associated abuse of young boys and lads.
Talk about ingrained.
As time wore in, these attractions and patterns of behavior proved all but impossible to root out.
The men given these supposed chances to reform themselves would have been much better served with programs of long-term isolation into cloistered groups dedicated to prayer and fasting, with deliberate and permanent separation from any related temptations.
As it happened, after too-short or woefully inadequate periods of so-called rehabilitation, they were not infrequently given clean bills of mental health that in retrospect smacked of varying degrees of wishful thinking, after which they were often inexplicably funnelled by their bishops back into the same pastoral, educational, athletic, etc., environments that gave rise to their initial sins and crimes. Thus the odds of recidivism and even worse abuse of young boys were perversely maximized.
There is no way we should ever fall for this siren song or permit academics to fool anyone ever again about the notion of soft-pedaling either the ingrained nature of the evil attractions or patterns of behavior, or the prospects for sufficient rehabilitation of, in particular, adult men whose backgrounds or individual histories show that they either are or have been in the throes of the horrific soul-killing scourge of ephebophilia.
Had to Google what “person-first language” is...
People-first language (PFL),[1] also called person-first language, is a type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis, describing what condition a person “has” rather than asserting what a person “is”. It is intended to avoid marginalization or dehumanization (either consciously or subconsciously) when discussing people with a chronic illness or disability. It can be seen as a type of disability etiquette but person-first language can also be more generally applied to any group that would otherwise be defined or mentally categorized by a condition or trait (for example, race, age, or appearance).
Person-first language avoids using labels or adjectives to define someone, using terms such as “a person with diabetes” instead of “a diabetic” or “a person with alcoholism” instead of “an alcoholic”. The intention is that a person is seen foremost as a person and only secondly as a person with some trait, which does not inevitably define their essence; it avoids essentializing the condition as their prime identity as a human being. Advocates of person-first language point to the failure to mentally separate the person from the trait as reinforcing a sense that both the trait and the person are inherently bad or inferior, leading to discrimination whilst also implicitly reinforcing a sense of permanency even regarding issues that are likely to be temporary. For example, a person with a substance use disorder has a fair chance of achieving long-term remission—many years in which they are healthy and productive—but calling them a “substance abuser” reinforces an unspoken sense that they are inherently and permanently tainted and casts doubt on maintenance of remission. (wiki)
They don’t need to fix what’s in their heads. They need their heads cut off.
So they are trying to trick people on this matter as well.
Just when you think the left can not get more perverse…
Well then, just call them "Repeat Sex Offenders," because that's where they're headed.
It makes it sound worse to me. “Convicted sex offender” is past tense. “Convicted adult who commits sexual offenses” sounds like an ongoing thing.
In a better world, sex offenders should be called, “deceased.”