3 Sex offenders at the same address ???

Or...is this just child porn repeat

Fetishes are not interchangeable.

Actually, adolescent sex offender programs have quite a reasonable success rate.

I can't quote the stats because they were given at a recent presentation, and I didn't get the reference paper.

Oh do define exactly what you mean by "otherwise deviant sexuality."

And please, in exactitude, define what "the collective" does not allow that you recommend.

One question about juveniles with sex offenses that remains unanswered is what kind of treatment works best. New studies are, however, beginning to suggest potential directions. One of the most promising is what’s known as multisystemic therapy, which tries to minimize antisocial behavior by helping caregivers more effectively supervise their children. Multisystemic therapy typically focuses on improving parent-child bonds and encouraging teenagers’ involvement in class work and after-school activities, as well as healthy friendships. Two small, controlled studies with juveniles who committed sex offenses suggest MST reduces recidivism more effectively than individual psychotherapy and some other treatments. In a third, a federally financed clinical trial led by Elizabeth Letourneau, researchers are looking at 127 juveniles adjudicated for sex offenses, between ages 11 and 18, and their families. About half of the kids were randomly assigned to multisystemic therapy and half to a traditional sex-offender treatment program that focuses on, among other things, relapse prevention. Both programs are outpatient. (No published study, Letourneau notes, has ever shown that residential programs " which she and other critics contend are overused " are more effective than less costly outpatient programs.) According to Letourneau, early results from the MST study are promising.

And last year, Mark Chaffin, at the University of Oklahoma, and other researchers published the results of a longitudinal study of 135 children ages 5 to 12 who had sexual-behavior problems and participated in a therapy program. The program took just 12 weeks, during which counselors addressed inappropriate sexual behavior, concrete sexual-behavior rules, self-control techniques and sex education. Given that the children were under 13, it’s hard to know if the results can be replicated with older adolescents, though Chaffin has just such a study under way. But in the study of younger children, the 10-year recidivism rate was 2 percent. “You can’t get a whole lot lower than that,” Chaffin said. “That’s a functional definition of a cure.”

For instance your people would take an offender and teach them how they might use porn and BDSM to satisfy their needs,

As part of their treatment, the boys had to keep journals " which Longo read " in which they detailed their sexual fantasies and logged how frequently they masturbated to those fantasies. They created “relapse-prevention plans,” based on the idea that sex-offending is like an addiction and that teenagers need to be watchful of any “triggers” (pornography, anger) that might initiate their “cycle” of reoffending.

I'd like to see the list used more judiciously, both in terms of who gets on the list and who has access to it.

Actually, the article that JPB posted the link to states that porn can be a trigger to engaging in what amounts to addictive behavior for people with this problem:

Yeah - there are some horror stories about what can happen to people who get 'outed' but on the other hand, I have to say, that I'm like Linkat. If there's a sex offender in my neighborhood - I'd like to be informed before the fact and not after some horrible, tragic event has taken place- because all the parents thought their neighborhood was as safe as it's always been

The correct thing could be to tell you that you are not entitled to the information that you want.

The question about sex offender notification is how does it serve the collectives best interests? WHat can you do with that information to make the world a better place? Can you or will you make you and you loves ones safer with this information.

Threads like this are a good example of what is wrong with sex offender registries. It's currently available for any layman to peruse for mere curiosity. It simply should not be available for any curious person to look at. It should be available to police and to people who are going to directly hire the individual to take care of kids.

It would make much more sense as a special background check for employment (with a small fee to prevent fishing) than what it is now, which is ultimately a way to keep these people from successfully rehabilitating their lives.

Right now, when businesses hire these folk, others who are obsessed with the list find out and threaten to run them out of business, and things like that only make it harder for them to rehabilitate themselves in society.

I'd like to see the list used more judiciously, both in terms of who gets on the list and who has access to it.

In the state I worked for "the list" included everyone who had ever been accused/investigated for any child abuse/neglect whether arrested or convicted or even charged. While this "list" was not specifically public it was easily accessed by almost anyone. In my capacity in child protection, I was very reluctant to name anyone being investigated because of this. Upon conviction, the name was automatically placed on the public list.

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Oh do define exactly what you mean by "otherwise deviant sexuality

that would be anything. For instance your people would take an offender and teach them how they might use porn and BDSM to satisfy their needs, and you would tell them that as long as they are getting their fix fed by consensual interactions with adults then they are model citizens and have nothing to worry about from the law or the public health system.