Incarceration vs Treatment

Although I have stated that pedophilia is considered an illness and not a crime, I"ve never stated that the act of pedophilia can be considered justifiable. A mentally incompetent person is incapable of fully understanding their actions. If someone isn"t fully capable of understanding their actions then how can they tell what they are doing is right or wrong? Pedophilia is indeed wrong but if we apply the proper treatment to this specific illness we can prevent recidivism of this crime. Treatment wouldn"t be given out freely to everyone; a psych evaluation would be a requisite in order to be considered for treatment. With treatment we would be creating situations where the person can come in, remain anonymous, receive sex drive reducing medication, counseling, group therapy, or whatever is appropriate to the situation we're in; with incarceration the person probably would not get this much help, they would be put away mainly in isolation until their time is served. We need to be able to be dispassionate, and clinical, and think rationally about the situation, rather than giving into our first instinct which is usually to incarcerate the person. My discussion on sex offenders was not directly related to sex registry rather the prisoner did not receive proper treatment in prison. A successful treatment program would have the prisoner registered and on file to receive successive treatment after being released. This would encourage the dual goal of allowing people to be on notice of their neighbors as well as procuring treatment for the offender. There is no study that proves that treatment is only a succinct method; it is not considered a disease rather it is considered a disorder of adult personality and behavior as defined by The International Classification of Diseases by the World Health Organization. Biological, psychological, and social factors have been indicated in the basis and development of pedophilia. Social factors such as childhood abuse, as well as easy access to social platforms, including internet-pornography, have also been identified as potential contributing and/or identifying factors for pedophilia and sex offending. Allowing access to things such as these will allow someone a way to maintain a certain degree of obscurity. Pedophilic acts can be considered a cycle; these acts have probably started when that person was a child in their own home and so forth. If we can help the person to correct their ways and views on sexual orientation, it would be more helpful to not only themselves but people that they will eventually come in contact with. If we're going to find a way to stop pedophilia, the end goal and the most important thing we care about, we have to acknowledge the fact that we need to study and understand this disorder, which means understanding the people who have it. By just incarcerating them we are not getting an understanding of the people who have it we are just keeping them for a period of time and then they are released. Furthermore, the lack of research on the disorder means there is no progress being made on possible treatments. Even if as a society we dislike the idea of "helping" pedophiles, it is important that we increase our research on pedophilia; how else will we find ways and future treatments (other than the ones we have now) to prevent it? Incarceration is not really helping anyone if you look at it, it"s just a way to keep someone off the street but eventually many of them will be free again. How can incarceration help someone more than treatment?