Why Do We Need Sex Offender Rehabilitation?

There are many sex offender rehabilitations program for sex offenders in hopes that they will help sexual offenders change their way of thinking. Everyone has their own opinions in whether these programs really do help the offender’s way of thinking. It has also caused a negative effect in today’s society emotional response to these crimes. However, the emotions that some people might have about the subject shouldn’t be used to condemn sex offenders as monsters or look up in disgust, but help them in any way possible that might make them change for the good (Becher. E). There are many researchers out there trying different way and techniques that they think might help sexual offenders. Some researchers believe that one day they can a find a cure for sexual offenders. But the question will always exist on how effective sex offender treatment can be. Is it worth completing a sex offender treatment program to make them change? Then again, all the methods that therapists are using are becoming very controversial because it seems to be turning more into abuse to offenders themselves.
There is a group called the Environment Scale (ES), which is a group of people who do group counseling and team building (Charles
They go from drug treatment to anger management to a drama therapy, which is a session for sexual offenders were they engage in role playing that therapists believe helps inmates understand what it feels like to be a victim of a sex crime (Mehta, S. N.1996). One example of drama therapy might be the therapists might pick an offender who was charged for fooling with a young boy. The therapists might that person to play the role of the victim while the actor pretends to be the attacker. The theory that the therapists have is that the offender who empathizes with the victim’s pain and trauma is likely to think twice before coming a similar