Sex Offenders Rehabilitation

Many in the system view people with this disorder as disgusting and not needing to be released out of prison. Many are sent to prison based on the stigma of child sexual abuse. This is not saying what the individual committed was not wrong, but that due to a disorder it should be handled differently with a focus on treatment and rehabilitation. Back in the 1980s when a surge of child sexual abuse began being reported, people jumped to the action of creating harsher laws and sentencing. The “tough on crime” political atmosphere surrounding the time and even today helped pushed through an escalation of punishment for sex offenders. By the 1990s, people began to term these individuals as “sex offender” and even worse “sexual predator” (Lynch,