Colorado’s Sex Offender Management Board voted Monday to stop using the term “sex offender” in treatment contexts and begin using “adults who commit sexual offenses” since it’s a less stigmatizing term for such individuals, KCNC-TV reported.
The terminology change is meant to reflect “person-first” language, the station said, and only affects use in treatment. KCNC added that the term “sex offender” won’t change in the state’s law or criminal justice system. . .
Kimberly Corbin, a rape survivor, spoke out against changing the term “sex offender” to something less stigmatizing, KCNC noted.
“I’m involved today after hearing that it would be improper or offensive in some manner for me to refer to the man who raped me as a sex offender,” Corbin said, according to the station.
She added to KCNC that “it’s very, very damaging” when people are “labeled” as a result of their “gender, race, sexuality, [or] ability” since “those are not their choices”; however, Corbin emphasized that sex offenders make choices to commit sexual crimes and don’t require a less stigmatizing label.
Protecting Criminals and defending their Devious Behavior is just another method of Politicians
seeking the change of Laws to Demonize the Victims of “Unwanted Sexual Encounters” by Re-Defining the nomenclature of the Individuals that Commit these Criminal Acts in an Attempt to convince the General Public that there is a “Valid Reason” that Criminals Act in this manner in order to provide “EXCUSES” for their actions (Other than MENTAL INSTABILITY)
Changing the Name of a Crime or defining a Criminal in a lesser manner does nothing to Prevent those Crimes that will be or have been committed! It just makes it easier for the Criminals that commit these crimes to wend their way through the citizenry with Impunity and commit more of the same Crimes by cloaking their identities to avoid suspicion and identification
What the dam difference?
Colorado has become another CA, full of perverts and socialist leaders that should all be dragged out into the streets and hanged.
“Sex offenders make choices.” True, but you can say that about virtually any crime… .IMHO, people make conscious choices to be criminals and to do evil.
As do politicians…
Maybe they should learn and understand the language! Let’s break it down, SEX OFFENDER-( one who commits sexual offences) Just a longer title with the same verbage! That’s right, stupid is as stupid says! I bet they even had to use the dictionary for this!
LET’S GO BRANDON!
BUCK JOE FIDEN!
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING, but I expect nothing else from leftist liberals anymore. There used to be a noble concept regarding what liberals stood for, but no more.
So you are soooo concerned about this horrible stigma imposed upon these people? What about their victims? They have to carry the stigma of what we forced upon them by these deginerates for the rest of their lives!! You, of course, don’t even consider dealing with that; you never do. As usual, in your efforts to make the perpetrator more comfortable you step all over the victims. Think about how the victims feel. Oh, but you cannot because you are on another of your leftist liberal missions.
ALL of you make me want to vomit. You are disgusting people.
A rose is still a rose no matter what you call it.
Shit still stinks no matter what you want to call it.
So changing the name means nothing as they are still just what they have committed.
A rapist is still just that a person who committed the act of forcing someone into having sex with them against that other person will.
A sex offender is just a nice way of saying rapist.
While adults who commit sexual offenses just spells it out on what they committed.