Increasing the dregree of punishment is VERY RARELY effective in crubing crime.

Rather it is crime prevention and detection techniques that are more influential.

There are several reasons why this may not be the best way of dealing with child molesters and rapists:

1) The above crimes while sometimes premeditated, are generally crimesof passion. In the sense that the rapist or child molester rarely knows that he is going to rape somebody BEFORE he actually does it. Usually it is circumstance ( do he feel like it AND can he get away with it) that determines whether a man goes through with it. Therefore seeing drooling fools in jumpsuits are AT BEST going to make him MORE CAREFUL ( which in turn reduces the detection level). Besides if a man KNOWS he is gonna be lobotomised, don't you think he will kill the victim to secure himself?

2) I myself was molested at the age of 5. The awful thing however was that i was molested by another boy of 16. Whatever the case, that boy was just a child. Children do not have the same sense of right and wrong as a well- informed adult.

ALSO children with skewed perceptions of right and wrong are generally abuse victims themselves. How will THEY get justice?

Whether we like it or not, most rapists and child molesters have mitigating circumstances. Can you punish a mentally ill person who grew up getting raped by his dad every night?

3) Public display and public participation in violence is, in my opinion, primitive. There is enough violence in the world as it is. Do we really need "interactive punishment"? It will only be state sanctioned violence.. i dunno about you, but i would not want to live in a country where i can publicly view and even participate in violence against a human.

Punishment is the job of government. It should not be made an avenue to people to vent their frustrations.

Personally i have a slightly different suggestion.

Whil ei firmyl believe that the execution of punishment lies with government, cases like these require greater involvement by the victim ( the victim is the MOST IMPORTANT PERSON in this scenario).

FOr instance, while unlikely, SOME victims choose to forgive and forget. Whatever that dude did to me as a child, i am glad he was not killed or lobotomised ( i told my dad and he beat the dude to pieces). I would not want a human death on my conscience.

You see as a victim what you REALLY care about is whether somebody is there to take care of you. I only needed to feel my parents love and support to recover from this ordeal. Venegance never played a part.. As it SHOULDN'T

When you get molested the MAIN trauma isn't physical.. it is mental. When you get molested, another person crosses your boundaries. Very often that is followed by intense guilt because one feel responsible for this breach.

The only thing important to a child in this situation is KNOWING that he/she did nothing wrong. Venegance doesn't figure in the equation. it doesn't add or subtract the pain felt.

Basically while i totaly understand your sentiment ( i myself went through many years of anger before i let it go .. but let it go one must ) I disagree with the sanctioning of public violence. It is not helpful to the victims and it certainly does nothing to address the circumstances that created the urge to rape and molest in an individual.