me:
> there's another kind of shame punishment that the article did not > mention. Child molesters have their names and addresses listed on > web-sites even though they've served their time in prison. This leads > to shunning and worse, encouraging them to move out of town or change > their identities, but that can simply start the cycle again. Some > simply become homeless in order to avoid the shame. (Another type of > case: Dan White -- the that the guy who slew Harvey Milk and San > Francisco Mayor Moscone in 1978 -- ended up committing suicide in > shame.) > > there's got to be a better solution.
On 8/8/06, Carrol Cox wrote:
For juvenile offenders the best solution is that they not be caught. The second best is that they not be punished or punished only very very lightly. ...
for child molesters? -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in economics, it's the exact opposite." --- Paul Dirac [edited]
