MOGUĆNOSTI PRIMENE SPECIJALIZOVANIH PENALNIH TRETMANA PREMA SEKSUALNIM PRESTUPNICIMA
POSSIBILITIES OF APPLYING SPECIALIZED PENALTY TREATMENTS TO SEX OFFENDERS

Summary/Abstract: This paper’s objectives are aimed at exploration of possibilities of triggering change in behavior of sex offenders by the means of penalty treatment, with emphasis on the fact that specialized forms of treatment of this category of convicts are necessary to be developed in Serbian prisons. The work depicts some of the treatment models applied in the world. Most commonly, the penalty for the committed sex crimes are of retributive characteristics and they lack of treatment components in our conditions. The social reaction of condemning sex offenders, especially in the case of child molesters, leads to an extreme requirement of bringing back the death sentence to the judicial sanctions spectrum, whilst at the same time there are no requirements to organize or apply any specialized penalty treatment models to the sex offenders. Presenting some of the potential models of sex offenders’ specialized treatments applied in some states is the attempt to demonstrate the fact that many of the possibilities of social reaction to these offenders are not utilized even though the preconditions do exist. Analysis of statistics and dynamic factors of criminal and socially pathological behavior of sex offenders enables focusing the penalty treatment on some of the determined factors, which is something that is not performed in our environment but it should be as other states do apply this with more or less effectiveness. The process of developing and modeling towards more effective forms of sex offenders penalty treatment surpasses the basic question of – what to do with these category of convicts in prison. Simplified imprisoning, segregation, isolation and retribution are observed as insufficient, ineffective and almost certainly leading to the sex offenders’ recidivism. This paper is to highlight the fact that the penalty practice in the sex offences reduction may be more effective, that the scientific and empirical experience does exist and that we should opt of utilization and not disregard of the existing knowledge.

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