Korean Lawmakers Pass New Law Authorizing Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders
It will be interesting in a few years to see if this new policy actually helps reduce the number of sex crimes or not?:
South Korean lawmakers have passed amendments to sex crime laws which will see those guilty of attempted rape and voyeurism subject to drug treatment, also known as chemical castration, in order to control their sexual impulses.
During the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon held on Tuesday at the Government Complex in Seoul, the government deliberated and voted on a number of reforms related to the law concerning pharmacological treatment of violent sex crime offenders, meaning offenders committing crimes of attempted rape, voyeurism, and rape involving minor victims will all be subject to chemical castration.
In addition, those serving a prison sentence and court orders of pharmacological treatment in the last nine to six months will be able to appeal to a court to lift the orders after being examined by psychology professionals to assess the risks of recidivism. [Korea Biz Wire]
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A gallows or a gibbet might bring closure to a lot of worried students and parents… http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/07/251_233660.html
I’m all for forgiving people; but you can’t allow teachers to molest students like that.
voyeurism!? 😮
How’d that get thrown in with rape? Korea’s opinion on voyeurism and privacy are pretty different than what we’d think is reasonable. Remember this? https://www.rokdrop.net/2014/09/naked-woman-decides-to-take-a-stroll-through-gangnam/
If CH is in his APT in tower 1 on the 15th floor in a room doing nude stairmaster with no curtains covering the window and I’m in tower 2 on the 17th floor leaning out my utility room window taking a smoke and take a photo to upload to the web and put a funny caption the Korean mindset is that I’m guilty of peeping CH, not that CH should put up some damn curtains… ❓
Korean definition of voyeurism is ‘unwanted photography of women’. Thousands of men are prosecuted each year for taking photographs of fully clothed women in subways or streets, such as below.
https://m.imgur.com/a/cknq7
http://imgur.com/a/sy3SO
Its already ridiculous enough that korean police will raid your house and seize your computer hard drive and mobile phones for taking a random picture of woman in street, and end up with 5 years in prison. Now they will add chemical castration to the punishment.