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?

 


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. ::


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

poem: baptism with sexual autocannibalism

 

disorder? orientation? that depends on why you're asking

 

review: dream children

   

brandon goletzski

i had a dream / of a man from years ago / alone after jerking off. his head

 

ethan edwards

To me the question isn't what you call it but what you are going to do with the information.

 

ethan edwards

The book is fiction, but we can ask whether such a positive outcome is realistic, given Oliver as he is presented. I have my doubts.

 
 
 
poem: baptism with sexual autocannibalism
brandon goletzski

i had a dream / of a man from years ago / alone after jerking off. his head

 
 
 
disorder? orientation? that depends on why you're asking
ethan edwards

To me the question isn't what you call it but what you are going to do with the information.

 
 
 
review: dream children
ethan edwards

The book is fiction, but we can ask whether such a positive outcome is realistic, given Oliver as he is presented. I have my doubts.