thread: are prevention programmes effective?

thread: are prevention programmes effective?

4 January 2020    
from twitter and bluesky threads

bly 

 

Many professional efforts to support us are based on the idea of preventing crimes. Do they actually work?

Bly is a former co-director of Virtuous Pedophiles. Blog posts reflect his personal views, and are not statements from the organisation.

 


We don't know [how effective prevention programmes are] for several reasons.

(1) because there are only very small populations of pedophiles that seek out or receive treatment before or instead of an offence.

(2) It's impossible to measure who *would have* offended without intervention in individual cases.

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(3) It's only recently that there have been systemic attempts to reach out and offer support to pedophilic individuals who have not offended, or who are offending but have not yet been caught (now there are @StopSO_UK
, @DontOffendIndia
, @StopItNowUK
, @B4U_ACT
+ more.

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(4) In the case of the already-offending group there are a whole set of issues around mandatory reporting or ethical disclosure for professionals, for which there are different rules in different countries.

(5) Most therapy takes place with individual practitioners

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who do not collate or harmonise their approaches to this taboo issue, and would feel a strong need to be cautious in how they would discuss it in the public sphere, because of taboos.

(6) Many of those just discovering they are pedophiles and best placed to benefit

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from early intervention are themselves still legally children, which means if they reach out their parents will be told, their school might break confidentiality and generally have no clear idea or policies on how to deal with a disclosure of attraction toward minors.

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There are other issues too, but all of these align to create a situation where support is too seldom asked for, offered, publicised or comes with an assurance of expertise UNLESS a person already offended (and even then it's at best patchy).

MAPs hope this can change. ::


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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a short bright elucidation
bly

A review of A Long Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity by Allyn Walker

 
 
 
thread: what rights do pedophiles lack?
bly

Don't pedophiles already have all the rights they need?

 
 
 
review: manticore
rakkaus keksit

Disgraced director's film brings an elevated aesthetic to a contemporary tragedy of dark desires, but does it get the situation right?