Incarceration vs Treatment

1.)Incarceration is the state of being confined in prison. 2.)Incarceration is a form of punishment for someone who has done something wrong or illegal. 3.)Punishment is the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense. 4.)It would be wrong to punish someone for something in which they could not help. 5.)Pedophilia is an illness and not a crime. 6.)If we punish someone for something they cannot help, we are acting unreasonable. 7.)Acting unreasonable is bad. 8.)Acting unreasonable towards someone by punishment of incarceration, focuses mainly on the offense and not always the offender. 9.)Treatment focuses on the offender and not the offense. 10.)Treatment is medical care given to someone for an illness or injury; it can also be psychological and medical interventions. 11.)If we treat a pedophile, we can prevent relapses and also reduce reoffending. 12.)Preventing relapses and reducing re-offense is good. 13.)With incarceration, pedophiles are confined for a set period of time and then later put back into communities. 14.)If we put pedophiles back into communities without proper treatment, we are just asking for another occurrence of pedophilia. 15.)Another occurrence of pedophilia is bad. 16.)Other negative consequences are acceptable in the light of treatment such as more money being spent and time consuming in the light of pedophilia benefits. 17.)Therefore, persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerate in all instances. Non-Controversial: 1.), 2.), 3.), 4.), 6.), 7.), 10.), 12.), 13.), 15.) Controversial: 5.) because pedophilia could result from a failure in the brain to identify which unclear motive should provoke a sexual response; in their mind the person cannot tell the act that they are committing is wrong, they believe it to be right. 8.) because when someone is incarcerated, they do not necessarily get the proper treatment that would help them to not commit the crime again; most pedophiles are isolated for their prison sentence. 9.) Even though the offender is the one that committed the offense of course, treatment can put the pedophile on the path to recovery while also addressing the root of the problem, with that being committing pedophilic acts. Treatment can also help pedophilia by reducing or preventing the expression of pedophilic behavior, managing urges and avoid committing future crimes. 11.) Sex offenders are about four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after their discharge from prison. (CNN.com); this saying that sex offenders who have already been incarcerated for a sex act will most likely be the ones to be incarcerated again. Also, there is a treatment called cognitive behavioral therapy which is known as a relapse prevention and has also been shown to reduce recidivism rates in sex offenders; if sex offenders get this treatment they are killing two birds with one stone (reducing relapses and recidivism). 14.) because once released from prison we know that sex offenders are supposed to be registered online but not all of them are, some of them are missing; we don't know where they are and where they're living. Being that the prisoner most likely did not receive treatment while in prison, we can speculate that the illness of pedophilia may not be gone; in fact it could"ve gotten even worse.