Reply #18: Well, if you look at recidivism rates from the DoJ... [View All]

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it would appear that re-offense is already quite low, and that treatment can make a difference (though that is somewhat open to debate, as getting statistically significant drops can be kind of difficult when you already have a low re-offense rate).

Also, though, I'm not sure if re-offense for this particular brand of crime has been studied extensively. I'm sure that there are probably differences between child molesters who view child porn, people who view all kinds of pornography and show little preference, people who exclusively view child porn, and so on and so forth. Being that it is such a big problem in the area of computer crimes, though, I'm sure we'll probably be seeing more data in the future.