Sex Offenders Civil Commitment

Sex Offenders Civil Commitment

Introduction

The world in which we live today is full of different sort of people. Some people are good and some in the vague of illusions lose their morality and indulge in tasks that are considered as immoral and evil. Such people also include sexual offenders. In order to deal with the sexual offenders there are civil commitment programs that work to reduce the events of sexual offence in society. The aim and objective of this paper is also to talk about the sexual offenders and civil commitment.

Since the late 1990s, the release of sex offenders to the community has generated a great deal of controversy. In many states, the correctional response to sex offenders has been primarily punitive in nature with legislation focusing on punishment, monitoring, and restrictions. Nevertheless, numerous correctional departments across the United States and the Canadian correctional system have established prison-based therapeutic programs to address the treatment and rehabilitation of sex offenders. Current correctional treatment has been primarily developed for child molesters and is of a relapse prevention perspective; however, rapists and child molesters exhibit differences in biological, psychological, and behavioral factors, such as psychopathy and recidivism. As such, treatment for child molesters is likely to be ineffective with rapists. Correctional treatment should be modified to target multiple and unfamiliar problems for rapists and child molesters.

Rapists and child molesters exhibit some clear psychological, interpersonal, and behavioral differences. Rapists, on average, tend to be more antisocial and aggressive and can be more accurately classified as violent offenders rather than as sex offenders. Child molesters are nonviolent, their sexual deviancy is often considered pathological and entrenched, and their criminal behavior is driven by their sexual preoccupations. Unfortunately, empirical findings related to such distinctions have rarely translated into modifications to sex offender treatment programs that address the differential needs of subgroups of sex offenders.

Thesis Statement

Civil Commitment reduces the number of sexual offences occur in society.

Sex Offender

The term describes a sex offender's legal status criminals rather than a psychological category of subject as this group does not present a uniform but heterogeneous personality. Some sex offenders are pedophile, Mirones, Fetish or exhibitionists, and rapists. Sex offenders have different motivations and often seek to humiliate and dominate their victims. They also show different methods of implementing their offenses which includes with or without gratuitous violence, with or without accomplices them with robbery or not, in addition to sexually assault the victim

Offenders who sexually assault adult female are rarely sent to prison. In prisons there are approx. 5% of prisoners serving sentences for sexual offenses. Although there is small presence of sexual offenses and treatment of offenders should be the main focus of the social sciences. Treatment of extremely serious crimes and that undermine one of the essential properties of the people as sexual freedom. They often cause serious and lasting consequences for victims to produce a high social alarm.

Civil Commitment

Civil commitment can be describes as a legal process in which a court orders an involuntary ...