We cannot have one without the other. There are individuals who are so toxic that their presence threatens us all. They self-identify by their conduct. When it comes to the sexual sadist, psychiatric diagnoses won't protect us. Appeasement endangers us.
Rehabilitation is a joke.
As a criminal justice response to the chronic, dangerous sexual psychopath, castration of any kind is morally pernicious and pragmatically impotent. Child abuse, once largely ignored by the general public, has been the subject of more media attention than perhaps any other issue in recent American history. Today's victim of child abuse is tomorrow's predator. Any 'war on crime' that fails to recognize child protective services as the front lines exalts rhetoric over reality. A Juvenile Justice Quarterly , Vol.