Rape & Punishment

The punishment for rape must be increased. As it stands right now, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis, "anywhere in America, if a man rapes a woman, he should only expect to serve a prison term of 128 days." When you consider the years of shame, false guilt, post traumatic stress disorder, possible pregnancy and thoughts of suicide that a victim of rape goes through, 128 days of free shelter and food hardly seems fair or just for the rapist. The punishment simply does not fit the crime. It is understandable that there is prison overcrowding. It is understandable that unless reported immediately, rape is hard to prove. It is understandable that there are situations where women have reported a rape falsely and ruined men's lives. Most of these problems are valid problems in and of themselves that need to be solved another time. Our goal in America must be to have a firmer grasp on the brutality of rape and to create a punishment that truly fits the crime.

We must begin mandatory castration immediately after the conviction of rape (walk them out of the courtroom and into the operating room). The perpetrator must have a surgical implant, preferably done during the castration surgery, to track his every move for the rest of his life (not unlike a GPS system) and last but not least, the average prison sentence for rape must be at least triple what it is now. It is my experience that people will inherently do whatever they can get away with. People need to be terrified of raping another person. When the punishment is not worth committing the crime, people will stop committing the crime.

Mandatory castration immediately after conviction of rape will have several effects, the first of which is that rape will be associated with castration, which is not a pleasant thing to associate any action with. The second effect that it will have is that it will forever inhibit the perpetrator from committing the same crime. Furthermore, it will alert anybody who decides to have any kind of a romantic relationship with the perpetrator in the future that this person is, or has been, a rapist.