May 12, 2020, 12:49 pm
NOTE: As we’ve come to know from Smith v. Doe, Psychology Today is a lay magazine that will pretty much print anything. The following article was published in Psychology Today.
Sexual offenders have been despised in all cultures and the thought of release to settled neighborhoods is frightening. Although parameters around released sex offenders are put in place there is dubious trust in the judgments of the experts?
Treatment for sexual offenders is a controversial topic in our modern world. Media reports on serious cases of sexually motivated murder, rape, and child abuse have made people concerned about treatment, release and recidivism. A large majority of incarcerated adult male sex offenders will return to our communities. Finding ways to treat, manage, and supervise these offenders is imperative.
Florida has the most stringent treatment of sexual offenders. It is their focus on civil commitment laws when the state fears an offender could molest, assault or rape again if released. In Florida, it’s legal to lock someone up indefinitely for a crime they haven’t yet committed. But this process is reserved for those who were convicted of violent sexual offenses, completed their sentences, but then were judged to still be a risk.
In Florida, at the end of a sexual offender’s criminal sentence, they are psychologically evaluated by at least two people for a “mental abnormality” or “personality disorder” that would predispose them to commit another violent sex crime. If judged to be dangerous, they’re taken to await their commitment trial.
The trials are based on the predictive probability of future crimes. The hearing may not even include data from their previous crime. Being an expert witness in Florida is a lucrative endeavor. Florida maintains a punitive model of containment.
The post Psychology Today: Do Sex Offenders Have A Mental Illness? appeared first on Florida Action Committee.
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