Are there crimes for which there is no possible rehabilitation?

[el_bryanto]

In your opinion.

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[Scuba]

1. Depends on how one defines "rehabilitation".

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Agreed.

Does rehabilitated mean that they can keep themselves from committing similar crimes or does it mean that they don't want to commit similar crimes anymore? Because if it means the latter, you could probably say that child molesters can't be rehabilitated. Even if they can make themselves not do it anymore, it seems that they still have the urge to do it. They have to be closely monitored, and even with that they still get their hands on child porn or have other things that stimulate them sexually. I don't know if it's cheaper to keep them locked up or to allow them to live in halfway houses, but something must be done to ensure they won't do it again. They tend to be incorrigible.

[mike_c]

2. while there might be PEOPLE who are beyond rehabilitation...

...I do not accept that any particular crime, in and of itself, reliably indicates the impossibility of rehabilitation.

[NV Whino]

3. Crimes, no. People, yes.

[One_Life_To_Give]

5. Crimes which could only be perpetrated by people for which medicin has no cure? Certainly.

It's usually not a single criminal act but taken as a whole. There have been some crimes committed for which the perpetrator could only have been suffering from mental defect for which we have no cure.

[RC]

6. Depends on the definition of the crime.

Some of what used to be crimes, are not crimes now because too many people were doing it. (Example - living together) What used to be legal, became illegal because money could be made from busting them and locking them up. (Example - growing weeds) Harm quite often has nothing to do with legality.

[el_bryanto]

7. I see what you are saying - but that may be a different question

Are some things legally classified as crimes that shouldn't be crimes - we might all answer yes (i certainly would on the pot thing). On the other hand I am more getting at things which are definitely crime and should be crimes - thinks like Murder, Child Abuse and the like.

Bryant

[XemaSab]

8. There are crimes for which any risk of recidivism is too high

If there's only a 10% chance that Chism is ever going to kill again, that's way too high. If it's a 1% chance, that's way too high.

It's not worth the risk.

[Xyzse]

9. I have to say, that I think that is not the right question.

To me, it isn't the crime, it is the person.

Every single crime is done by a host of different motivations.

A person might kill someone and immediately regret it afterwards, where they would strive for redemption.
That is the same for any crime.

Some people can't be rehabilitated, since rehabilitation is something that they genuinely have to want and work toward.

So, to me, it really depends on the person not the crime they have committed.