208. Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay

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🗓️ 11 June 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sure, sex crimes are horrific, and the perpetrators deserve to be punished harshly. But society keeps exacting costs -- out-of-pocket and otherwise -- long after the prison sentence has been served.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, so I just finished my MA in forensic psychology at John Jay and started an internship
0:08.1	in a new city.
0:10.6	I spend most of my days hanging out with lovely people like rapists and pedophiles.
0:14.9	That's Jake Swartz.
0:15.9	I'm an intern at treatment evaluation services.
0:19.4	Jake had sent us an email about his job.
0:22.4	I primarily do therapy, he wrote both group and individual with convicted sex offenders
0:28.2	and it made me realize being a sex offender is a terrible idea, apart from the obvious
0:33.3	reasons, it's economically disastrous.
0:38.1	That is not the kind of observation here every day.
0:40.3	I assume that by economically disastrous, Jake was mostly talking about sex offender
0:45.9	registries, which limit job options and constrain where a sex offender can live after
0:51.1	getting out of prison.
0:52.5	When we followed up with Jake by phone, he had a suggestion for an episode.
0:58.7	I think it would be interesting to cover the economics of being a sex offender.
1:03.5	I agree with Jake.
1:05.3	As disturbing as this topic may be to some people, I agree that the economics of being a sex offender
1:11.5	might indeed be interesting and that it might even tell us something more generally about
1:16.3	crime and punishment.
1:18.1	Do you agree?
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1:43.3	everything.
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