Our approach to pedophilia isn’t working

Chris Engel 5/16/136:48 PM

"By focusing only on punishment, experts say we're putting more children at risk....

"I don’t believe in monsters, or the devil, or the concept of evil. Dehumanization is counterproductive: The guy who groomed me was just one of many millions of screwed-up human beings with serious issues. And maybe (for the sake of his victims) if someone had tried to help him in his early life, hundreds of young girls could have been spared from those depraved compulsions....

"But vengeance for the loss of a child’s innocence is distracting us from the crucial search for preventive measures. Our collective disgust of pedophiles means we are distancing ourselves from gaining any understanding of them and pushing the problem further underground. If we want to protect our children, we need to know how...."

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/15/our_approach_to_pedophilia_isn%C2%B4t_working/singleton/

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