阉割往往不能阻止性犯罪.docVIP

Castration often fails to halt offenders 阉割往往不能阻止罪犯 Sometimes a good idea is ill-conceived. 有时候一个好想法会变成规划不周的政策。 When I first heard that some states were mandating castration for repeat sex offenders, I thought it was a good idea. If these predators cant control themselves, why not have a doctor do it for them? There was a time when castration was a brutal act of physical mutilation. But now it can be done with a series of injections, or by simply removing the testicles and leaving the rest of the male plumbing intact. 当我第一次听说有些州授权对强奸惯犯实行阉割，曾一度以为这是一个好主意。既然这些罪犯不能自控，何不让医生们来帮他们控制自己？在历史上阉割曾是一种残忍的肉体残害，但是现在阉割可以通过一系列注射，或仅仅切除睾丸而保全其他男性生殖系统来实现。 Given (what) the damage rapists and other sexual predators do to their victims, that sounded harmless enough to me. But when I read in an Orlando newspaper last month that a Florida judge ordered a first-time rapist to undergo chemical castration after he completes a 20-year sentence, I began to question the wisdom of how this issue is being handled. In the Florida case, the judge, fearing that the man would still be a threat after his imprisonment, ruled hed have to take regular injections to reduce his sex drive during a 10-year probation period. 考虑到强奸犯和其他性犯罪者对他们的受害人造成的伤害，我觉得阉割听起来已经够轻了。但是上个月的一天，当我在一份奥兰多报纸上读到一位佛罗里达法官判处一名强奸初犯接受化学阉割，而且还是在判处他有期徒刑20年之后的情况下，我开始不由怀疑这种刑罚具体是如何被掌控的。在这个案子里，法官担心这个犯人在有期徒刑之后仍会对社会造成威胁，判处他必须在将来10年的缓刑期里接受定期的注射来消除性欲。（也就是说，10年之内的表现良好可以换取不再服刑） But what happens after those 10 years, or if the offender stops taking the treatment? In another case, Joseph Frank Smith, a sex offender who voluntarily underwent chemical castration nearly 2 decades ago, pleaded guilty in 1998 to another sexual assault, this time on a 5-year-old Virginia girl. At the time, his lawyer said he thought Smith was no longer taking the chemical treatments. 但是这10年过去之后又会怎样呢，或者如果罪犯停止接受治疗呢？在另一个案例中，乔瑟夫·法兰克·史密斯，一名在20年前主动接受化学阉割的性犯罪者，又在1998年一宗对5岁维吉尼亚幼女性的侵犯案中认罪。这次他的律师说据他所知史密斯已经停止接受化学注射了（才会再次犯罪）。 Prisoners opt for procedure 服刑者拥有的关于治疗的选择 Like Smith, who served n