ST ONLINE REFLECTION TERM2 WEEK2 SEC 2E/NA Reforming sex offenders(Part B – Home Section – Page B5 – Law & Order) Qn1)How does the treatment programme of the Singapore Prison Service help sex offenders? Qn2)Do you think that sex offenders should be given a second chance in the society? State your reasons. (1)Firstly, the sex offenders will have to talk about how their sexual habits are, their attitudes towards their previous sex offence, and their history.Sex offenders that are assessed to moderate or high risk of repeating the same crime will be put through a series of a more intensive training for six to eight months and this also includes the group discussion.Sex offenders who are in moderate risk will have to undergo a workbook-based course for about four months.This programme will help them to learn about the way they think and how their actions flow will form their current state.The programme will help the sex offenders to create an awareness and help them not repeat the crime when the urge arises again.During the first stage of the three-staged course,the inmates will learn to defeat the secrecy,shame and denial surrounding their acts will make them own up for what they have done. During the second stage,sex offenders are to give out their thinking in the run-up to their sex crimes into little bits, so their thinking errors can be corrected.This will teach the sex offenders empathy.In the final stage, inmates develop a "relapse prevention plan" for themselves. By the time they finished the course,they will be able to find out how they think and what they believe in and this will help them to do the corect things.
(2)Why not?Does it means that once one have a record, means that he/she will be kicked of the world?Everybody will do wrong in his/her life,no one is perfect.Why not give them a chance to turn a new leaf if they decided to turn?And for those who don't want to turn,you should help them to change their thinkings and make them feel that they are still part of society.No fallbacks means no success,no one is borned to be perfect.Yeah,some people might have borned in a rich family,but even in the richest family,they will surely have fallbacks.Many successful business men/women have encountered many fallbacks before they reached this stage.If you're unable to forgive one that has a record and give them a chance,you don't ask for any forgiving from anybody when you did something wrong because is the fact that you are the first despise those who have a record and refused to forgive them.