Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Matthew Poole,
it would still be morally abhorrent to predetermine that it will be public record forever that someone who could not have given consent even if they desired to do so has had xyz sexual experiences
I think this is the key point. This is something to which the rest of us are not and will never be subject. The rest of us have a choice about our privacy.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to FletcherB,
I’m sure these programs do good, but also I’m not sure you’ll ever be able to accurately study how well they fix or prevent people doing stuff again. Only how few get caught again.
Assuming the definition is the same as that for the untreated control group, it does show an effect. Supposing that therapy actually makes re-offending harder to detect seems a long bow to draw.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to John Armstrong,
The odd code that exists inside would see him in a situation befitting his treatment of his victims.
Great, let’s pile some more brutality in there. Wilson’s apparent psychopathy might mean that he is effectively beyond help, but that doesn’t justify brutalising him in turn.
Yes. Which was the point of my original post.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to DexterX,
Crime state are based on reporeted rather than actual. Crime rates are a long run politically manipulated stat – an example being more resources are put into policing and the crime stat goes up – fewer resoruces are applied and the crime stat goes down.
That’s pretty much what we saw with the family violence strategy. The police policy of encouraging reporting seemed to account for most of the rise in reported violent crime – a figure which was used ruthlessly in a political sense. The biggest influence on crime rates over time seems to be demographic -- there's more crime when there are more people of crime-committing age.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Joe Wylie,
So if we’re to congratulate ourselves on being above those kinds of delusions, we’re likely to be more tolerant of real crime because, hey. it’s declining, and each case is one less we have to worry about?
I honestly can’t follow your meaning there.
But if anyone’s interested, the Howard League has a fact sheet summarising the work of McGregor and others and there's a more recent follow-up study (covering only the ODT and the Southland Times) by Phil McCarthy.
These trends have real impact on public perceptions of crime and punishment and these have political consequences. At the extreme, that can mean the out-of-control use of sex offender lists in various American states. There’s a chilling documentary about that called Outlawing Indecency.
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Twenty-odd civilians killed in bombings of a mosque and a city market overnight.
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Apparently Wilson's lawyer said on Radio Live this morning that his client would rather be in prison now because he feared being attacked.
On the one hand, this would solve a problem. On the other, it would validate vigilante violence as a solution.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to DexterX,
Being a free citizen in a democracy I feel I am entitled to express a point of view and what I am saying is not a “sweeping judgement” as much as it may gall many of those who consider Hall to be a victim of the system.
But no one said that either. But I genuinely don't think a single instance of sentencing like this one can bear the weight of too many generalisations.
As regards sweeping statements, I was more thinking of Gudrun's declaration that "these individuals" offend because "the consequence is almost nonexistent". I honestly don't believe that to be true.
I've written and read a bit about this over the years; most notably the studies by Judy McGregor matching perceptions of crime and punishment against the expansion of crime news as a proportion of total news in the media. People thought crime was increasing (it was falling) and sentences were becoming steadily lighter (the opposite was true). This has consequences.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Russell I’m sorry if I’ve implied that you did, but there are a couple of posts upthread that come across as needlessly condescending to what are probably genuine sentiments. I
I'm sure they'e genuine sentiments, but to be honest I've been a bit shocked by a few things said in this thread.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to DexterX,
This is twists the “context” or what I feel is Jackie’s POV – having no faith in a thing and being on ones guard for the benefit of others is what come across to me – not as you are saying denying treatment opportunities to child victims and offenders aged 10 to 12 years.
I have absolutely no doubt about Jackie's concern for others, or her awareness of those in her care.
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