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In reply to the discussion: Jesus fuck, can we lay off the torture and agony fantasies already? (Tsarnaev) [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)you mentioned 'sociopathic killers and rapists.' My understanding is that Anti-Social Personality Disorder (whether sociopathic or psychopathic) is currently untreatable. That is, there is no cure. So a criminal who is a sociopath or psychopath also by definition cannot be rehabilitated. (I'm agreeing with your post #12.) Those prisoners can only be segregated from the general population so that they cannot commit their crimes again.
Your post is a great one and really deserves to be its own OP, imo, for its passionate advocacy of victims' rights.
FWIW, I have not been following super closely the story of the Judge who reduced the sentence of the rapist who raped the 3-year old. Have there been any new developments? I do not think pedophiles can be 'rehabilitated,' as I understand the term, since pedophilia, like ASPD, is currently 'untreatable.' But I'm a layperson and no expert and so shall defer to your experience and relative expertise.