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Re:3 Years for spying on kids - 2008/08/28 06:11
Very brave of you to admit the truth about yourself.
The re-offending rate for "sex" crimes is pretty consistent throughout the western world ie : 5% and under-the lowest of all recidivism rates in crimes-and well below the re-offending rates of other crimes which are up around the 22-40% rate.
So the hysteria is false but driven by politicians and their "Tough On Crime" mantras ( when they are bereft of other policies) and driven by the media who happily indulge these fear mongers.
As a person who did law for 3 years ( but dropped out) I still have a fascination about the law and believe it's the only thing that prevents us becoming complete barbarians-I have a great respect for genuine law that protects society. Therefore I find the use of law for propaganda purposes ( and sex crimes are the ones used) quite abhorrent.
Of course all circumstances about this particular crime should be taken into context and robbiex is asking the right kind of questions..is it done out of curiosity etc etc.? or as in the 270,000 collection case-this man sounds like he is suffering from serious obsessional behaviour.
One aspect ignored is that many who are caught are often only in possesion of nudists pics of kids-and these were taken in a time and place where nudism doesn't carry the great prudery it does in the UK-East European countries, Germany, the Scanadavian. Parents snap their kids-magazines run the pics ( although not so much these days ) and even in the USA-these pictures are not illegal. So abuse doesn't come into it. However people may think otherwise.
There are also absolutely no studies to show these pictures do lasting harm-except anecdotal stories from individuals who only speak for themselves-and even then-no study has been done with these people about their entire life. For instance some claim it has driven them to drink and drugs-I find this highly improbable as a hundred factors can cause this-and alcoholism is a (usually inherited) disease.
Then there are horrific small groups that do abuse children, record the event and distribute the material amongst themselves. This is abhorrent and must be curtailed.
Few have pointed out that in Glitter's porn case-the material must not have been in the worst catergory hence the very light sentence 4 months ( doing only 2).
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