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Originally Posted by PYroMaNiaC
These people need serious psychiatric treatment. How effective are jails at providing that?
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Well I am not sure if you think that I am advocating for longer prison sentences.....
As far as I am concerned, unless these people have treatable disorders such as
schizophrenia, these people cannot be changed. People who are psychopathic or have anit-social disorders are lost causes (in a lot of cases). These people are hard wired and cannot be treated only managed in a very structured setting. No jail time will fix them.
However, it was interesting to know (can't remember the exact %) I learned in my forensic psyc class that a there are quite a few of people in society that have minor anti-social/personality disorders. Nothing enough to go off the deep end but enough to think twice about how many people are out there that feel little or no compassion for others.