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Termyn8or -> RE: A tough case in criminal justice (6/22/2010 4:11:40 AM)
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FR
Having entered the field of rehab running by the seat of my pants, I am not so sure I should've. We are not talking sex offernders here, but I can tell you that real rehab is alot harder than it looks. Unfortunately agreeing with Ken, notification is not a good thing. I could see circulating pictures, but giving out their address and all that is not fair, because in the end, people can and do change.
But to coax and encourage that change is difficult as you are fighting decades of conditioning. Perhaps more. What made Schmidt how he is ? What kind of people accomplished this ? In so asking, the question comes, how did they get how they got to do such a thing ? Next step is what, the Grandparents ? Keep up that line of reasoning and we'll wind up blaming Adam and Eve.
Recidivism is rampant because the government has no idea how to rehab anyone. In my venture I've found that it takes alot more than meets the eye. What you have to realize first is that the perp thought there was nothing wrong with his actions at the time. It doesn't matter if he was high or drunk. I have a long history of getting high and/or drunk and never even considered raping anyone, let alone an infant. How does something like this even enter someone's mind, no matter what state their mind is in at the time ?
I don't think I could effectively deal with this. I can deal with ex thieves and whores, and those who have exhibited extreme stupidity at the wrong time, but I can't wrap my mind around this.
While I completely understand that the mind is very unlikely to be totally developed by at least 25 years of age, first of all why is that so ? Second of all to develop, I believe that during that stage of life one should be at large, working, paying bills, and consiously deciding not to rip a MFs door off their car for flinging it open right in front of you. Things like that. None of these experiences happen in an institution.
So what do we do with a guy like this ? Keep him forever away from kids ? OK, but then we never know if anything worked to get him to grow out of it. We can never be sure. Maybe a better plan is to force him into an environment with a bunch of kids, supervised of course until he has something akin to a nervous breakdown after some interaction. I know it's not likely to happen. You wouldn't volunteer your kids for such a project would you ?
With an habitual thief for example, you can, in time offer just a little bit of trust. Then they get the concept of earning trust. Not hard to fathom psychologically, but of little or no help in the case of a sex offender. An ex-whore can be taught a sense of self worth, though it takes time. But this scrappin' bitin' hillbilly bitch is putty in my hands. She told me that she has never felt like family before, practically in tears. That was the perfect time to inform her that she is not allowed in the family until she knows how to drive a stickshift. It was good to hear her laugh. And my sinister has a stickshift pickup truck. She will take care of that.
The technique requires constant adaptation as well. It has been taxing to say the least, but the result are coming. We got people actually working, despite this fucked up econony. We got my car keys hanging on the wall. We got my money, smokes and "substance" laying out where anyone can get it, but it is generally untouched. That is trust that was hard earned.
But as much as I can do, I have no idea what to do with a guy like this. Maybe it would be better if they just execute him. I mean for everyone, as well as him. If the remorse hasn't hit him I don't think he is ready to go to Mayberry with the white picket fence. If the remorse actually ever hits him he is likely to be suicidal.
Since people re pretty much treated as chattel by the PTB maybe we just should extend that a bit. No matter how nice your car is you know evenually it goes to the crusher. Some cars go to the crusher at a quite early age, because of fatal problems. A few models come to mind.......
But then is it for us to say that a person is not fit to live in society has no right to life ? What then, exile ? Let them pander their terror elsewhere until another society beheads them or something ? I don't see a hell of alot of good coming out of that plan either.
Harsh sanctions or threats might work. "If any kid dies or anything within ten miles of you, you are going to jail and will have to prove your innocence". This is of course unconstitutional, but after a crime that does warrant the death penalty, I guess anything goes. And we have no idea if it would even work, because criminals do not think that they will be caught. Despite what the media tells you, 90% of the time they are not. Walking into a courtroom for sentencing always comes with the court's opinion - which is that you got away with it a bunch of times before you got caught. Most of the time they are right.
The easy answer is that there are no easy answers. With this criminality we are fighting each other, and there are bigger problems which require our attention these days. So what do we do, start whacking people because it is just too much trouble to try to help them ?
I'd hate to find that to be the only answer. But we still have that dead baby. Oh, and the ex-hooker, she was raped at age two. The perp didn't drown her though. But her fucked up life afterwards was not worth living. Until recently that is. Thirty years of drug abuse and trying to stay ignorant of her problems. Spreading her legs at the drop of a $20 bill. We don't mention that much, because life is to be lived in the present, for the future. You can't just say get over it, but that's what needs to happen. You are forty, it is time to take control.
If taking the path I took taught me anything, it's that my background, as imperfect as it was, wasn't all that bad.
T
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