The “Sex Offender” Regime is Cruel and Unusual Punishment

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

“As a feminist, I’m not happy about the equation of masculinity with sexually tinged sadism or the stoicism to withstand it. But answering personal violence with state-sanctioned violence won’t make anyone any less violent.

“For kids, it’s just as likely to make them angrier, less empathetic, and stripped of hope.”

By Judith Levine, in Counterpunch

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/dont-prosecute-the-sayreville-bombers/#.VEqJGk7c7X0.facebook

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