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Mere Confinement Cannot Stop Them -

A Look on Taiwan’s Disposal toward Rapist

Thesis Statement: This paper examines the wrong concepts of treating ex-convicts with records on rape which exist in common people’s minds and further discuss some of the loopholes in Taiwan’s current laws.

Outline:

Ⅰ. Recently, many rapes were done by ex-convicts who have just been paroled indicate that Taiwanese government have to develop effective disposals toward the highly risky rapists who are likely to commit crimes repeatedly as soon as possible.

Ⅱ. SVP (Sexually Violent Predator) is a hot issue in America, and American government has already set up several relative laws to protect the citizens. By contrast, there are many loopholes in our current laws and disposals which enable SVPs to recommit crimes.

Ⅲ. The penalties which Taiwanese government gives to the rapists are too slight in degree.

A. Our government condemns the rapists three to ten years of limited imprisonment, and it is easy to achieve the conditions of parole.

B. Short-term confinement is useless to SVP since it takes a long time to cure their mental problems.

C. Taiwanese authorities cannot effectively examine whether a criminal is dangerous to t the society but permit their application for parole, and this causes more rapes.

Ⅳ. Whether in Taiwan or other countries, physical and psychological treatments are regarded as useful disposals.

A. Physical therapy contains “Surgical Castration” and “Chemical Castration”.

a. “Surgical Castration” removes the testis and decreases the sexual desire.

b. “Chemical Castration” allows the injection of antiandrogen into muscle and control the abnormal imagination.

B. Neither of the two castrations is used in Taiwan. So far, the most usual therapy

our government uses is mental treatment.

a. Negative experiences in their early ages accumulate and result in the rapists’ violent behaviors so they need professional helps.

b. If a rapist is a SVP with “antisocial personality”, the therapy would become useless.

c. Unfortunately, those criminals who have no possibility of being cured have to be isolated from the society.

Ⅴ. Tracking the prisoners who are either released or paroled is important.

A. Last year, the Ministry of Justice started to let unconfined criminals to wear

electronic ring, but only few of them are qualified for this new rule.

B. We are exposed to dangers since we have no idea whether our neighbors are ex-convicts.

a. In 1994, United States Congress has passed “Megan Law” to protect their citizens from potential crisis, and the regulations differ from state to state.

b. Taiwanese government does not provide us such channels for self protection because some people claim that it might invade the rights of those criminals.

Ⅵ. All in all, mere confinement or extreme penalties cannot improve the problem of

rape. The authorities should take different disposals into account to effectively

build a safe society for women.

posted by Eve @ 10:57 PM