But only if they are Muslims - (*)(*)(*)(*), you qualified it with 'convicted'...

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No.

Most (if not all) rapists do it for the power trip, not the sexual gratification. So I dont think it would stop anything.

The only people that would be eligible for castration are repeat offenders. Repeat offenders are the ones that do it for the power trip. Even if they cant get a boner, they will use something else. Castration wont do anything IMO.

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which lowers testosterone levels in the body, might.

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having to be chemically castrated as a condition of release (assuming, of course, they were guilty).

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Someone VERY close to me is a convicted sex offender, but for the past 20 years he has lived a normal life. He did what was asked of him; he did his time, he took his therapy seriously and I'm not ashamed to admit who he is.

He's my father.

He didn't abuse me, he abused my younger sister. But instead of shunning my father and disowning him, my father and my sister are now extremely close. She's forgiven him and the problems that occured in the past stay there. He's a terrific grandfather (my sister has a child) and there are no signs of my father reverting to his past self. He has voluntarily helped counsel newly convicted sex offenders and encouraged them to seek counseling.

So, if my sister can forgive my father for his crimes against her, I think I can too.

With that being said, I'm against chemical castration. Not just because of my fathers situation, but because I've learned that this is a disease. And when people have served their time and satisfied the courts sentence, they are done. To chemically castrate them would ruin the rest of their lives and ask them to continue to pay for crimes that they've already (legally) paid for.

My father is living proof that not all sex offenders are repeat offenders.

It is amazing how many things we do (not even talking about prison) that turn people into criminals once they commit (and are apprehended for) a crime. In cases of substance abuse, isolation is most often doom while support from friends, family, or a church is typically beneficial to recovery. The same may be true for some sex offenders. Others are probably not so easy to deal with. I'd imagine the type of guys who ambush and rape unsuspecting women are not quite so curable without something like chemical castration and a lot of sedatives. It all the more shows how criminal justice needs to be more individualized. It would help if we didn't flood the courts and prisons with drug possession cases.

I'm more of a hardliner... If there was DNA evidence showing that the individual truely raped an individual I'm all for the death penalty, unfortunately the government is soft on this subject, so there aren't enough deaths to deter others from doing crimes that deserve death... Instead they spend our tax money wasting away their lives in prison, possibly even getting parole so they can do it again.

But thats just me... I don't have pitty for those who harm another, and I don't care which voices were telling them to do it.

Like confusion said, if DNA proves them guilty then I would be fine with the policy or at least the electric chair. But I doubt it will happen unfortunately.